Research Catalog

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Description

1. x, 453 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative title

1. Race & medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America

Subject

1. African Americans > Health and hygiene > History > Southern States > 19th century
2. African Americans > Medical care > History > Southern States > 19th century
3. Sickle cell anemia > Southern States > History > 19th century
4. Racism > Southern States > History > 19th century
5. African Americans > history > United States
6. Delivery of Health Care > history > United States
7. Anemia, Sickle Cell > history > United States
8. Education, Medical > history > United States
9. History, 19th Century > United States
10. History, 20th Century > United States

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. Sc E 07-314

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.

Author

1. Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-

Title

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

Imprint

1. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2007.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-433) and index.

Spine title

1. Race & medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America

LCCN

1. 2006016314

ISBN

1. 087338878X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2. 9780873388788 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 07-314