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Slavery and Medicine

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1764An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
GRAINGER, James (1721 – 1766)
1776Observations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1786Des moyens de conserver la santé des blancs et des négres, aux Antilles ou climats chauds et humides de l'Amerique. Contenant un exposé des causes des malades propres....
BERTIN, Antoine de (1752 – 1790)
1788Observations sur le tétanos; Ses différences, ses causes, ses symptômes, avec le traitement de cette maladie & les moyens de la prévenir. Précédées d'un discours sur les moyens de perfectionner la médecine-pratique sous la zone torride. Suivies d'observations sur la santé des femmes enceintes dans ces régions; leurs maladies aux différentes époques de la grossesse; l'accouchement & les suites; la conservation des nouveau-nés jusqu'à l'adolescence. Terminées par le rapprochement des vices & des abus des hôpitaux d'entre les tropiques, & les moyens d'y remédier. Par M. Dazille. Pour servir de développement & de suite à ce que cet auteur a écrit du tétanos dans ses ouvrages sur les maladies des nègrse [sic], & sur les maladies des climats chauds.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1788Recherches, mémoires et observations sur les maladies épizootiques de Saint-Dominique, recueillis & publiés par le Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François.
ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791)
CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
1788An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.
FALCONBRIDGE, Alexander (1760 – 1791)
1788Voyages intéressans dans différentes colonies françaises, espagnoles, anglaises, &c; contenant des observations importantes relatives à ces contrées; & un mémoire sur les maladies les plus communes à Saint-Domingue, leurs remèdes, & le moyen de s'en préserver moralement & phisiquement: Avec des anecdotes singulières, qui n'avaient jamais été publiés....
BOURGEOIS, Nicolas-Louis (1710 – 1776)
1801The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic: Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations.
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
1802Mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire et sur les maladies auxquelles ils sont sujets en y arrivant.
FRANK, Louis (1761 – 1825)
1803An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
1803Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
COLLINS, David
1807The planter's and mariner's medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. To which are subjoined a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary giving an explanation of technical terms.
EWELL, James (1773 – 1832)
1814Coup-d'oeil sur Saint-Domingue; observations sur le caractère des négres et sur la fièvre jaune; moyens de recouvrer cette colonie, et de se préserver des maladies qui y règnent.
CHARAULT, C. R.
1820A treatise on the diseases of Negroes, as they occur in the island of Jamaica: with observations on the country remedies.
THOMSON, James
1826Recherches et expériences sur les poisons d'Amérique: Tirés des trois règnes de La nature, et envisagés sous les rapports de l'histoire naturelle, de la physiologie, de le pathologie et de la chimie, avec un essai sur l'empoisonnement par Les miasmes des marais, le mal d'estomac des nègres (cachexia Africana), et les maladies qui ressemblent aux empoisonnemens; pour servir à la toxicologie générale du continent d'Amérique et des Antilles.
RICORD, Jean Baptiste (1777 – 1837)
1830Thoughts on the original unity of the human race.
CALDWELL, Charles (1772 – 1853)
CALDWELL, Charles (1772 – 1853)
1832Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
1835A case of introsussception in which an operation was successfully resorted to…in December, 1831.
WILSON, John R. W.
1840Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
1858Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
1918American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
PHILLIPS, Ulrich Bonnell (1877 – 1934)
1951The health of slaves on southern plantations.
POSTELL, William Dosite (1908 – 1982)
1969Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
1978Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
SAVITT, Todd L. (1943 – )
1984The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
1985Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
1986A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
1997Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
1998Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine
1998Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.
LETI, Geneviève
1999The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
2002Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
FETT, Sharla M.
2006Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
SCHWARTZ, Marie Jenkins (1946 – )
2006Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
WASHINGTON, Harriet A.
2006Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
WEAVER, Karol Kovalovich
2007African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
COVEY, Herbert C. (1949 – )
2009Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
WRIGHT, David PALMER, Steven DE BARROS, Juanita
2011The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922) HAZELL, Alastair
2012Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
WEINER, Marli F. (1953 – 2009) HOUGH, Mayzie
2012The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
THOMAS, James G. Jr. WILSON, Charles Reagan (1948 – )
2013Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
SMITH, Billy G.
2016Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.
MUSTAKEEM, Sowande'
2017Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
HOGARTH, Rana A.
2017Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
TURNER, Sasha
TURNER, Sasha
2018The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
SENIOR, Emily
2021Medicine and healing in the age of slavery. Edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D. E. Willoughby.
SMITH, Sean Morey WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.
2022Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.
WILLOUGHBY, Christopher D. E.