Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America / Todd L. Savitt.

Author/creator Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoKent, Ohio : Kent State University Press,
Descriptionx, 453 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
African Americans--Health and hygiene. --Southern States. --History. --19th century.
African Americans--Medical care. --Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Sickle cell anemia--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
Racism--Southern States. --History. --19th century.
African Americans--history. --United States.
Delivery of Health Care--history. --United States.
Anemia, Sickle Cell--history. --United States.
Education, Medical--history. --United States.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.

Spine title Race & medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America
Contents Smothering and overlaying of Virginia slave children: a suggested explanation -- Filariasis (elephantiasis) in the United States -- Race, medicine, and the discovery of sickle cell anemia: introduction -- Herrick's 1910 case report of sickle cell anemia, Chicago, Illinois -- Washburn's 1911 case report of sickle cell anemia, Charlottesville, Virginia -- Sickle cell anemia: the invisible malady -- Black health on the plantation -- Medical experimentation and demonstration on blacks in the Old South -- Slave life insurance in Virginia and North Carolina -- The Georgia Freedmen's bureau and the organization of health care, 1865-66 --The rise and decline of African American medical schools: introduction -- Lincoln University Medical Department -- Straight University Medical Department: black medical education in reconstruction New Orleans -- The education of black physicians at Shaw University, 1882-1918 -- Training the "consecrated, skillful, Christian physician": student life at Leonard Medical School -- Four African American proprietary medical colleges, 1888-1923 -- Money versus mission at Knoxville College Medical Department, 1895-1900 -- Abraham Flexner and the black medical schools -- Entering a "white" profession, 1880-1920 -- "A journal of our own": the Medical and surgical observer in late-nineteenth-century America -- Walking the color line: Alonzo McClennan, the Hospital herald, and segregated medicine.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.
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LCCN 2006016314
ISBN087338878X
ISBN9780873388788