Race And Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-century America
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: December 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780873388788
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; History of medicine; Medical; Health Care Delivery; Medical / Nursing; Southern States; History; The Americas; Allied Health Services - General; 19th century; African Americans; Health and hygiene; Medical care; Sickle cell anemia
Description: "In Race and Medicine historian Todd Savitt presents revised and updated versions of his seminal essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance."--BOOK JACKET.