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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

History of Slavery & Medicine (27)

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1918American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
1951The health of slaves on southern plantations.
POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
1969Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
1978Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
1984The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
1985Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
1986A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
1997Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
1998Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine
1998Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.
LETI, Geneviève
1999The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
2002Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.
2006Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
2006Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
2006Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
WEAVER, Karol Kovalovich
2007African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
COVEY, Herbert C. (1949 – )
2009Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
WRIGHT, David PALMER, Steven DE BARROS, Juanita
2011The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922) HAZELL, Alastair
2012Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
WEINER, Marli F. (1953 – 2009) HOUGH, Mayzie
2012The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
THOMAS, James G. Jr. WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
2013Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
SMITH, Billy G.
2016Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.
MUSTAKEEM, Sowande'
2017Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
HOGARTH, Rana A.
2017Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
TURNER, Sasha
TURNER, Sasha
2018The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
SENIOR, Emily
2021Medicine and healing in the age of slavery. Edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D. E. Willoughby.
SMITH, Sean Morey WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.
2022Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.
WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.