Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery
Chelsea Berry,Robin Derby,Sharla Fett
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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