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309 entries match Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine [K01.900.850]
2005
#10535
Japanese American midwives: Culture, community, and health politics, 1880-1950.
2006
#8090
Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
2006
#8092
Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
2006
#9911
Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
2007
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Eliminating healthcare disparities in America. Beyond the IOM Report. Edited by Richard Allen Williams.
2007
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Epidemics and enslavement: Biological catastrophe in the native Southeast, 1492-1715,
2007
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African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
2007
#9976
African American folk healing.
2007
#10250
United States Army aeromedical support to African American fliers, 1941-1949: The Tuskegee flight surgeons.
Digital facsimile from airforemedicine.af.mil at this link.
2007
#10371
Race & medicine in nineteenth and early twentieth-century America.
2007
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The works of James McCune Smith: Black intellectual and abolitionist. Edited by John Stauffer. Forward by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Smith "was the first African American to hold a medical degree and graduated at the top in his class at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. After his return to the United States, he became the first African America…
2008
#7412
Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.
The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…
2008
#8234
Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.
Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…
2008
#10798
Intensely human: The health of the black soldier in the American Civil War.
2008
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Creek Indian medicine ways. The enduring power of Muskoke religion.
"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicine man, tells about…
2009
#8256
Maimonides On poisons and the protection against lethal drugs. A parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, along with critical editions of Hebrew and Latin; medieval translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
2009
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Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
2009
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Forgotten voices: Death records of the Yakama, 1888-1964.
"Despite a recent resurgence in studies of death and disease in native peoples of the Western Hemisphere, little work has been done on death and disease in Native Americans during the reservation period of the late 19…
2009
#13029
Dermatology for skin of color.
"... the first comprehensive reference for this subspecialty, ranging from the historic and cultural to the clinical and basic science components....More than 600 full-color photographs of preoperative and postoperati…
2009
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The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…
2009
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The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
2010
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Practicing medicine in a black regiment: The Civil War diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts, edited by Richard M. Reid.
Wilder was a Harvard-trained white physician assigned to one of the first African American regiments in the American Civil War.
2010
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Black physicians in the Jim Crow South.
2011
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Body and soul: The Black Panther Party and the fight against medical discrimination.
2011
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Biographical dictionary of American physicians of African ancestry, 1800-1920.
2011
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The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
2012
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Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2012
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Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
2012
#8258
Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.
2012
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
2012
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Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
2013
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La biblioteca di Avraham ben David Portaleone Secondo L'inventario della sua eredita.
An attempt to reconstruct the library of Avraham Portaleone (1542-1612) of Mantua, physician to the ducal house of Gonzaga, on the basis of two interesting inventories, including a Hebrew list of 1585 and an inventory…
2013
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Moses Maimonides and his practice of medicine.
2013
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Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
2014
#7237
Jewish medical resistance in the holocaust. Edited by Michael A. Grodin.
2014
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African American medicine in Washington, D.C.: Healing the capital during the Civil War Era.
Concerns the role of African American nurses, doctors and surgeons during the American Civil War.
2014
#8259
Maimonides On rules regarding the practical part of the medical art. A parallel English-Arabic edition and translation. Translated by Gerrit Bos, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann
2015
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Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
2015
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A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.
"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…
2015
#10341
Beyond germs: Native depopulation in North America. Edited by Catherine M. Cameron, Paul Kelton, and Alan C. Swedlund.
This book "challenges the “virgin soil” hypothesis that was used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous people of North America. This hypothesis argues that the massive depopulation of the New World w…
2016
#9554
African American doctors of World War I: The lives of 104 volunteers.
2016
#10081
Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.
2017
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Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
2017
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Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
2017
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American Indian medicine ways: Spiritual power, prophets, and healing. Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer.
"Indigenous people of wisdom have offered prayers of power, protection, and healing since the dawn of time. From Wovoka, the Ghost Dance prophet, to contemporary healer Kenneth Coosewoon, medicine people have called o…
2017
#12587
Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
"It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. Howeve…
2017
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The price for their pound of flesh: The value of the enslaved, from womb to grave, in the building of a nation.
"Berry studies the economic history of slavery in the United States, examining how a price was assigned to the bodies of enslaved people in America from before they were born until after they died.[5] Berry proposes f…
2018
#10755
To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987.
2018
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The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
2018
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