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Author:

Long, Margaret Geneva.

Title:

Doctoring freedom : the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation / by Gretchen Long.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xi, 234 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Slaves--History.--Southern States--History.
African Americans--History.
Plantation life--Southern States--History.
Slaves--History.--Southern States--History.
Health and race--Southern States--History.
Slaves--Southern States--Social conditions.
African Americans--history--United States.
Delivery of Health Care--history--United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Physicians--history--United States.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-215) and index.

Contents:

When the slaves got sick : antebellum medical practice -- Sickness rages fearfully among them : a wartime medical crisis and its implications -- We have come out like men : African American military medical care -- We have come to a conclusion to bind ourselves together : African American associations and medical care -- No license; nor no deplomer : regulating private medical practice and public space -- By nature specially fitted for the care of the sufferer : black doctors, nurses, and patients after the war.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

ISBN:

0807835838 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807835838 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)781279029

LCCN:

2012010855

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)