Slavery and Medicine

Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum Louisiana

KATHERINE BANKOLE (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

348 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-3059-2 (ISBN)

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This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing the slaves' proactive management of medical care; brutality as a cause of the constant need for medical attention; and the health risks posed by arduous agricultural labor. This groundbreaking study offers insight into the health problems facing enslaved people, their attempts to deal with the causes and effects of illness and injury, and the slave owners' attitudes toward the medical treatment of slaves. The appendices present valuable data on the medical treatment of enslaved African Americans from the Touro Infirmary Archives that have never before been published.

Katherine Bankole PhD

PART ONE— OVERVIEW OF ENSLAVEMENT AND MEDICINE, PART TWO—AFRICANS, MEDICAL THEORIES AND PRACTICES, PART THREE—AFRICAN MATERIA MEDICA AND ENSLAVEMENT

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.2.2002
Reihe/Serie	Studies in African American History and Culture
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	800 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8153-3059-6 / 0815330596
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-3059-2 / 9780815330592
Zustand	Neuware