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Location Call # Volume Status
 Sherman Library  R345 .S28 2002    AVAILABLE  
Author Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-
Title Medicine and slavery : the diseases and health care of Blacks in antebellum Virginia / Todd L. Savitt.
OCLC 50623541
ISBN 025200874X
Publisher Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Description 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
LC Subject heading/s Medicine -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Diseases -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Virginia -- Social conditions.
Public health -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : were Blacks medically different from whites? -- Health and the slave quarters -- Clothing, food, and working conditions -- Other health problems and conditions -- White and Black medicine -- Care of urban and industrial slaves, the aged, and free Blacks -- Epidemics -- Insanity -- Blacks as medical specimens -- Afterword : medicine, slavery, and the historian.
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