Doctoring freedom
Subtitle: the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation
By: by Gretchen Long
Series: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780807835838
Subjects: Physicians; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; African Americans; Delivery of Health Care; History
Description: xi, 234 p. ; 25 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: When the slaves got sick : antebellum medical practice; title: Sickness rages fearfully among them : a wartime medical crisis and its implications; title: We have come out like men : African American military medical care; title: We have come to a conclusion to bind ourselves together : African American associations and medical care; title: No license; nor no deplomer : regulating private medical practice and public space; title: By nature specially fitted for the care of the sufferer : black doctors, nurses, and patients after the war.