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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Slavery and Medicine

Exhibiting 47 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1835 CEA case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.
WILSON, John R. W.
WILSON, John R. W.
1986 CEA peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
1820 CEA treatise on the diseases of Negroes, as they occur in the island of Jamaica: with observations on the country remedies.
THOMSON, James
THOMSON, James
2007 CEAfrican American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
COVEY, Herbert C. (1949 – )
1918 CEAmerican Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
1803 CEAn account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
1788 CEAn account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.
FALCONBRIDGE, Alexander (1760 – 1791)
1764 CEAn essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
GRAINGER, James (1721 – 1766)
2006 CEBirthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
1840 CECatalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
2017 CEContested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
TURNER, Sasha
TURNER, Sasha
1814 CECoup-d'oeil sur Saint-Domingue; observations sur le caractère des négres et sur la fièvre jaune; moyens de recouvrer cette colonie, et de se préserver des maladies qui y règnent.
CHARAULT, C. R.
1786 CEDes moyens de conserver la santé des blancs et des négres, aux Antilles ou climats chauds et humides de l'Amerique. Contenant un exposé des causes des malades propres....
BERTIN, Antoine de (1752 – 1790)
1985 CEDoctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
2009 CEHealth and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
WRIGHT, David
WRIGHT, David PALMER, Steven DE BARROS, Juanita
1858 CEImpressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
2022 CEMasters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.
WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.
WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.
2006 CEMedical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
2006 CEMedical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
WEAVER, Karol Kovalovich
2017 CEMedicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
HOGARTH, Rana A.
2021 CEMedicine and healing in the age of slavery. Edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D. E. Willoughby.
SMITH, Sean Morey
SMITH, Sean Morey
WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.
WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.
1978 CEMedicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
1802 CEMémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire et sur les maladies auxquelles ils sont sujets en y arrivant.
FRANK, Louis (1761 – 1825)
1832 CEObservations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
1788 CEObservations sur le tétanos; Ses différences, ses causes, ses symptômes, avec le traitement de cette maladie & les moyens de la prévenir. Précédées d'un discours sur les moyens de perfectionner la médecine-pratique sous la zone torride. Suivies d'observations sur la santé des femmes enceintes dans ces régions; leurs maladies aux différentes époques de la grossesse; l'accouchement & les suites; la conservation des nouveau-nés jusqu'à l'adolescence. Terminées par le rapprochement des vices & des abus des hôpitaux d'entre les tropiques, & les moyens d'y remédier. Par M. Dazille. Pour servir de développement & de suite à ce que cet auteur a écrit du tétanos dans ses ouvrages sur les maladies des nègrse [sic], & sur les maladies des climats chauds.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1776 CEObservations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1969 CEParasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
1803 CEPractical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
COLLINS, David
1826 CERecherches et expériences sur les poisons d'Amérique: Tirés des trois règnes de La nature, et envisagés sous les rapports de l'histoire naturelle, de la physiologie, de le pathologie et de la chimie, avec un essai sur l'empoisonnement par Les miasmes des marais, le mal d'estomac des nègres (cachexia Africana), et les maladies qui ressemblent aux empoisonnemens; pour servir à la toxicologie générale du continent d'Amérique et des Antilles.
RICORD, Jean Baptiste (1777 – 1837)
1788 CERecherches, mémoires et observations sur les maladies épizootiques de Saint-Dominique, recueillis & publiés par le Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François.
ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791)
CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
1997 CESacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
1998 CESanté et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.
LETI, Geneviève
2012 CESex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
WEINER, Marli F. (1953 – 2009) HOUGH, Mayzie
2013 CEShip of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
SMITH, Billy G.
1998 CESlavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine
2016 CESlavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.
MUSTAKEEM, Sowande'
2018 CEThe Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
SENIOR, Emily
1984 CEThe Caribbean slave: A biological history.
KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
1951 CEThe health of slaves on southern plantations.
POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
2011 CEThe last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922) HAZELL, Alastair
1801 CEThe medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic: Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations.
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
2012 CEThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
THOMAS, James G. Jr.
THOMAS, James G. Jr.
WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
1999 CEThe physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
1807 CEThe planter's and mariner's medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. To which are subjoined a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary giving an explanation of technical terms.
EWELL, James (1773 – 1832)
1830 CEThoughts on the original unity of the human race.
CALDWELL, Charles (1772 – 1853)
CALDWELL, Charles (1772 – 1853)
1788 CEVoyages intéressans dans différentes colonies françaises, espagnoles, anglaises, &c; contenant des observations importantes relatives à ces contrées; & un mémoire sur les maladies les plus communes à Saint-Domingue, leurs remèdes, & le moyen de s'en préserver moralement & phisiquement: Avec des anecdotes singulières, qui n'avaient jamais été publiés....
BOURGEOIS, Nicolas-Louis (1710 – 1776)
2002 CEWorking cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.