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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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The Stethoscope and Virginia Medical Gazette
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.
The New York Journal of Medicine
Author: New York journal of medicine
Author: Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South
Author: Todd L. SavittPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book looks at disease entities (yellow fever, hookworm, pellagra) especially associated with the American South and wrestles with the relation of diseases to an issue of perennial concern to southern historians, that of southern distinctiveness.
Transactions of the Luzerne County Medidcal Society
Author: Southern Medical Reports
Author: Erasmus Darwin FennerPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Consists of general and special reports, on the medical topography, meteorology, and prevalent diseases, in the following states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, California ...
Transactions of the Luzerne County Medical Society
Author: Green Pharmacy
Author: Barbara GriggsPublisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892817276
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An eloquent and engaging account of the use of herbal medicine from prehistoric times to the present. Newly revised to include the latest developments in the field of herbal medicine, this classic bestseller presents a fascinating account of the ideas that have shaped the course of medicine and pharmacology in the Western world.
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