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Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America
- Title
- Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America / Todd L. Savitt.
- Author
- Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-
- Publication
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2007.
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Details
- Description
- x, 453 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Race & medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America
- Subjects
- History, 19th Century > United States
- History, 20th Century > United States
- African Americans > Health and hygiene > Southern States > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Medical care > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Sickle cell anemia > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Racism > Southern States > History > 19th century
- Education, Medical > history > United States
- Anemia, Sickle Cell > history > United States
- Delivery of Health Care > history > United States
- African Americans > history > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.
- Contents
- Smothering and overlaying of Virginia slave children: a suggested explanation -- Filariasis (elephantiasis) in the United States -- Race, medicine, and the discovery of sickle cell anemia: introduction -- Herrick's 1910 case report of sickle cell anemia, Chicago, Illinois -- Washburn's 1911 case report of sickle cell anemia, Charlottesville, Virginia -- Sickle cell anemia: the invisible malady -- Black health on the plantation -- Medical experimentation and demonstration on blacks in the Old South -- Slave life insurance in Virginia and North Carolina -- The Georgia Freedmen's bureau and the organization of health care, 1865-66 --The rise and decline of African American medical schools: introduction -- Lincoln University Medical Department -- Straight University Medical Department: black medical education in reconstruction New Orleans -- The education of black physicians at Shaw University, 1882-1918 -- Training the "consecrated, skillful, Christian physician": student life at Leonard Medical School -- Four African American proprietary medical colleges, 1888-1923 -- Money versus mission at Knoxville College Medical Department, 1895-1900 -- Abraham Flexner and the black medical schools -- Entering a "white" profession, 1880-1920 -- "A journal of our own": the Medical and surgical observer in late-nineteenth-century America -- Walking the color line: Alonzo McClennan, the Hospital herald, and segregated medicine.
- Call Number
- Sc E 07-314
- ISBN
- 087338878X (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780873388788 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006016314
- OCLC
- 68980860
- Author
- Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-
- Title
- Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America / Todd L. Savitt.
- Imprint
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.
- Spine Title
- Race & medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 07-314