Author: J. Hume SimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materia medica
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Planter's Guide, and Family Book of Medicine
Author: J. Hume SimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materia medica
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Simon's Planter's Guide, and Family Book of Medicine
Author: John Hume SimonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Medicine and Slavery
Author: Todd Lee SavittPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252008740
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Doctoring the South
Author: Steven M. StowePublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807828854
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Offering a new perspective on medical progress in the 19th century, Stowe provides an in-depth study of the mid-century culture of everyday medicine in the south. He illuminates an entire world of sickness and remedy, suffering and hope, and the deep ties between medicine and regional culture.
New Guide to Health; Or Botanic Family Physician
Author: Samuel ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
The Plantation
Author: Edgar Tristram ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Plantations
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora
Author: Kenneth F. KiplePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on slavery and racism.
Working Cures
Author: Sharla M. FettPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807853788
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South and invoked conflicts.
Haunted Bodies
Author: Anne Goodwyn JonesPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917269
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diversive as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.
New Guide to Health
Author: Samuel ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herbs
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description