Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

Chelsea Berry,Robin Derby,Sharla Fett

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Country
United States
Published
10 November 2021
Pages
240
ISBN
9780807171219

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

Chelsea Berry,Robin Derby,Sharla Fett

CONTENTS:

Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble

Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World, Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby

Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola, Lauren Derby

Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities, Chelsea Berry

Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia,
1793-1843, Mary E. Hicks

Examining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies, Deirdre Cooper Owens

Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade, Elise A. Mitchell

Medicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,
Brandi M. Waters

A Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital, Rana A. Hogarth

From Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever, Timothy James Lockley

Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation, Leslie A. Schwalm

Epilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake, Sharla M. Fett

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