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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
New Orleans Medical News and Hospital Gazette
Author: The American Medical Times
Author: Alphabetical List of Abbreviations of Titles of Medical Periodicals Employed in the Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicina
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Journal of the American Medical Association
Author: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Author: Transactions of the Meeting of the American Surgical Association
Author: American Surgical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
1969- includes the association's Minutes, previously published separately.
Transactions of the American Surgical Association
Author: American Surgical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Issues for 1880-1934 include papers read before the Association at the meeting.
The Transactions of the American Medical Association
Author: Birthing a Slave
Author: Marie Jenkins SchwartzPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer. Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.