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(3 reviews) Author: Visit Amazon's Sharla M. Fett Page ISBN : 9780807827093 New from Format: PDF
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In this work, which is based on her 1995 Rutgers University dissertation, Fett assesses slave health and medical care in the U.S. South. She portrays slave society as a culture that developed its own healing methods while subject to abuse and racist theories from white medical practitioners. Slave healthcare was an amalgam of various African tribal traditions transmuted by their dispersal throughout the South. Important to these systems were such factors as kinship relations in the community and the role of slave women in healing practices. White medical care of slaves concentrated on their fitness for labor in the household or fields. Written in a lively and engaging style, this book is a unique overview of the complex interaction of white and slave medical care in the antebellum South. Fett, who is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, also provides an important background to African American health since the end of slavery. Recommended for academic and large public libraries. A.J. Wright, Univ. of Alabama Lib., Birmingham
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"Incorporates and contributes to a wide range of existing scholarship on the history of medicine, the Atlantic world, and the religious, cultural, and social dimensions of the African American slave community."
— Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science
Written in a lively and engaging style, this book is a unique overview of the complex interaction of white and slave medical care in the antebellum South. (Library Journal)
Reveals how African Americans developed a distinctive health culture that drew on a panoply of therapies, remedies, and botanical knowledge from African, European, and Native American sources. (Tera W. Hunter, author of To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War)
Digs into an area of slave health untouched by previous historians. (Todd L. Savitt, author of Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia)
— Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Science
Written in a lively and engaging style, this book is a unique overview of the complex interaction of white and slave medical care in the antebellum South. (Library Journal)
Reveals how African Americans developed a distinctive health culture that drew on a panoply of therapies, remedies, and botanical knowledge from African, European, and Native American sources. (Tera W. Hunter, author of To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War)
Digs into an area of slave health untouched by previous historians. (Todd L. Savitt, author of Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia)
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- Series: Gender and American Culture
- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press (January 17, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0807827096
- ISBN-13: 978-0807827093
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 6 x 9.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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