Medicine and Slavery
Subtitle: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia (Blacks in the New World)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: January 1, 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780252008740
Subjects: Black studies; Blacks In The U.S.; History Of Medicine; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Slavery; United States - Antebellum Era; History / United States / 19th Century; United States - 19th Century; 19th century; African Americans; Diseases; History; Medicine; Slaves; Social conditions; Virginia
First sentence: "Scarcely any observant medical man, having charge of negro estates, fails to discover, by experience, important modifications in the diseases and appropriate treatment of the white and black race respectively.