Race And Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-century America

by Savitt, Todd L.

• ISBN13: 9780873388788
• ISBN10: 087338878X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-30
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

"My writings ... basically trace (with some gaps) the story of African Americans and medicine in the South from colonial times to the early twentieth century." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Todd L. Savitt is professor of medical humanities and history at the Brody School of Medicine of East Carolina University.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS
1. Smothering and Overlaying of Virginia Slave Children: A Suggested Explanation	3
2. Filariasis (Elephantiasis) in the United States	7
3. Race, Medicine, and the Discovery of Sickle Cell Anemia: Introduction	16
4. Herrick's 1910 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia, Chicago, Illinois	18
5. Washburn's 1911 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia, Charlottesville, Virginia	28
6. Sickle Cell Anemia: The Invisible Malady	39
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE DURING SLAVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION
7. Black Health on the Plantation	53
8. Medical Experimentation and Demonstration on Blacks in the Old South	77
9. Slave Life Insurance in Virginia and North Carolina	89
10. The Georgia Freedmen's Bureau and the Organization of Health Care, 1865-66	101
AFRICAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SCHOOLS
11. The Rise and Decline of African American Medical Schools: Introduction	121
12. Lincoln University Medical Department	125
13. Straight University Medical Department: Black Medical Education in Reconstruction New Orleans	139
14. The Education of Black Physicians at Shaw University, 1882-1918	154
15. Training the "Consecrated, Skillful, Christian Physician": Student Life at Leonard Medical School	169
16. Four African American Proprietary Medical Colleges0888-1923	189
17. Money versus Mission at Knoxville College Medical Department, 1895-1900	225
18. Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools	252
THE BLACK MEDICAL PROFESSION
19. Entering a "White" Profession, 1880-1920	269
20. "A Journal of Our Own": The Medical and Surgical Observer in Late-Nineteenth-Century America	295
21. Walking the Color Line: Alonzo McClennan, the Hospital Herald, and Segregated Medicine	316
Appendix	339
Notes	353
Index	435