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9780252008740

Medicine and Slavery

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  • ISBN13:

    9780252008740

  • ISBN10:

    025200874X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1981-02-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary

Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination.

In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.

Author Biography

Todd L. Savitt is a professor in the department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. 1
Introduction: Were Blacks Medically Different from Whites?p. 7
Health and the Slave Quartersp. 49
Clothing, Food, and Working Conditionsp. 83
Other Health Problems and Conditionsp. 111
White and Black Medicinep. 149
Care of Urban and Industrial Slaves, the Aged, and Free Blacksp. 185
Epidemicsp. 219
Insanityp. 247
Blacks as Medical Specimensp. 281
Afterword: Medicine, Slavery, and the Historianp. 309
Note on Sourcesp. 315
Indexp. 323
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