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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

History of Slavery & Medicine

Exhibiting 27 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1986 CEA peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
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)
2006 CEBirthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
2017 CEContested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
TURNER, Sasha
TURNER, Sasha
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
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 – )
1969 CEParasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
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
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)
2002 CEWorking cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.