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Medicine and slavery : the diseases and health care of Blacks in antebellum Virginia
- Title
- Medicine and slavery : the diseases and health care of Blacks in antebellum Virginia / Todd L. Savitt.
- Author
- Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1978.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | R345.S28 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 332 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Blacks in the New World
- Uniform Title
- Blacks in the New World.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Medicine > Virginia > History > 19th century
- African Americans > Diseases > History > Virginia > 19th century
- Enslaved persons > Virginia > Social conditions
- Public health > Virginia > History > 19th century
- Medicine > History
- Black or African American > history
- History of Medicine
- history of medicine
- African Americans > Diseases
- Medicine
- Public health
- Enslaved persons > Social conditions
- Gezondheidszorg
- Zwarten
- Virginia
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Were Blacks medically different from whites? -- Health and the slave quarters -- Clothing, food, and working conditions -- Other health problems and conditions -- White and Black medicine -- Care of urban and industrial slaves, the aged, and free Blacks -- Epidemics -- Insanity -- Blacks as Medical specimens.
- ISBN
- 0252006534
- 9780252006531
- LCCN
- 78008520
- OCLC
- ocm03893634
- 3893634
- SCSB-191194
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library