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Author Savitt, Todd

Title Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America
Published Ashland : Kent State University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (416 pages)
Contents ""Cover ""; ""Copyright ""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Diseases and Disorders of African Americans""; ""Chapter 1: Smothering and Overlaying of Virginia Slave Children: A Suggested Explanation""; ""Chapter 2: Filariasis (Elephantiasis) in the United States""; ""Chapter 3: Race, Medicine, and the Discovery of Sickle Cell Anemia: Introduction""; ""Chapter 4: Herrick�s 1910 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia, Chicago, Illinois""; ""Chapter 5: Washburn�s 1911 Case Report of Sickle Cell Anemia, Charlottesville, Virginia""
""Chapter 6: Sickle Cell Anemia: The Invisible Malady""""Health and Health Care during Slavery and Reconstruction""; ""Chapter 7: Black Health on the Plantation""; ""Chapter 8: Medical Experimentation and Demonstration on Blacks in the Old South""; ""Chapter 9: Slave Life Insurance in Virginia and North Carolina""; ""Chapter 10: The Georgia Freedmen�s Bureauand the Organization of Health Care, 1865�66""; ""African American Medical Schools""; ""Chapter 11: The Rise and Decline of African American Medical Schools: Introduction""; ""Chapter 12: Lincoln University Medical Department""
""Chapter 13: Straight University Medical Department: Black Medical Education in Reconstruction New Orleans""""Chapter 14: The Education of Black Physicians at Shaw University, 1882�1918""; ""Chapter 15: Training the “Consecrated, Skillful, Christian Physician�: Student Life at Leonard Medical School""; ""Chapter 16: Four African American Proprietary Medical Colleges, 1888�1923""; ""Chapter 17: Money versus Mission at Knoxville College Medical Department, 1895�1900""; ""Chapter 18: Abraham Flexner and the Black Medical Schools""; ""The Black Medical Profession""
""Chapter 19: Entering a “White� Profession, 1880�1920""""Chapter 20: “A Journal of Our Own� The Medical and Surgical Observer in Late-Nineteenth-Century America ""; ""Chapter 21: Walking the Color Line Alonzo McClennan, the Hospital Herald, and Segregated Med icine""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Index""
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Subject African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
African Americans -- Health and hygiene
Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612779911
1612779913