Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

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