"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press." "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Abortion -- Aerospace -- Agriculture, scientific -- Alcohol and alcoholism -- American Indian Health and Medicine -- Childbirth, antebellum -- Civil War medicine -- Climate and weather -- Drug use -- Education, medical -- Environmental health -- Eugenics -- Folk medicine -- Gender and health -- Healers, women -- Health, African American -- Health, mental -- Health, public -- Health, rural -- Health, worker -- Maternal and child health, urban -- Medical care, public health, and race -- Medical centers -- Medical science, racial ideology, and practice, to reconstruction -- Medicine, states' rights -- Obesity -- Physicians, African American -- Poverty, effects of -- Professionalization of science -- Racialized medicine -- Racism, scientific -- Science and religion (evolution vs. creationism) -- Slavery and medicine -- Slaves in medical education and medical experiments -- Surgeons general -- Technological education -- Technology -- Urban health conditions -- Barnard, Frederick A.P. -- Breckinridge, Mary -- Cancer Alley (Louisiana) -- Carver, George Washington -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Country doctor -- Creation science -- DDT -- DeBakey, Michael -- Faith healing -- Frontier Nursing service -- Garden, Alexander -- Geophyagia and Pica -- Guyton, Arthur C. -- Hardy, James D -- Herty, Charles Holmes -- HIV/AIDS -- Hookworm -- Hoxsey therapy -- Influenza epidemic of 1918 -- LeConte, John and Joseph -- Leprosy -- Lewis, Henry Clay -- Long, Crawford W. -- Malaria -- Maury, Matthew Fontaine -- McDowell, Ephraim -- Medical committee for human rights -- Medical museums -- Medicine shows and patent medicines -- Meharry medical college -- Moore, Samuel Preston -- Pellagra -- Poteat, William Louis -- Reed, Walter -- Research triangle park -- Ruffin, Edmund -- St. Jude Children's research hospital -- Savannah River site -- Scopes trial -- Sickle cell anemia -- Sims, J. Marion -- Slave hospitals -- Tuskegee syphilis study (United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study) -- Whitfiled (Mississippi State Hospital) -- Yellow Fever.
Summary:
"Science and medicine have been critical to southern history and the formation of southern culture. For three centuries, scientists in the South have documented the lush natural world around them and set a lasting tradition of inquiry. The medical history of the region, however, has been at times tragic. Disease, death, and generations of poor health have been the legacy of slavery, the plantation economy, rural life, and poorly planned cities. The essays in this volume explore this legacy as well as recent developments in technology, research, and medicine in the South. Subjects include natural history, slave health, medicine in the Civil War, public health, eugenics, HIV/AIDS, environmental health, and the rise of research institutions and hospitals, to name but a few. With 38 thematic essays, 44 topical entries, and a comprehensive overview essay, this volume offers an authoritative reference to science and medicine in the American South."--Publisher's website.
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