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
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.
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.
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.
Foul Bodies
Author: Kathleen M. BrownPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300160275
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? A nation’s standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward “dirt” through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness—and the lack of it—had moral, religious, and often sexual implications. Brown contends that care of the body is not simply a private matter but an expression of cultural ideals that reflect the fundamental values of a society.The book explores early America’s evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analyzing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering, and housecleaning performed by women. Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations.
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Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
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.
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