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History of Slavery & Medicine

Exhibiting 27 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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YearTitle & TagsAuthor(s)
1918American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
1951The health of slaves on southern plantations.
1969Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
1978Medicine and slavery. The diseases and health care of blacks in antebellum Virginia.
1984The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
1985Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
1986A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
1997Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
1998Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.
1998Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.
1999The physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
2002Working cures: Healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations.
2006Birthing a slave: Motherhood and medicine in the Antebellum South.
2006Medical apartheid: The dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present.
2006Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.
2007African American slave medicine: Herbal and non-herbal treatments.
2009Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
2011The last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
2012Sex, sickness, and slavery: Illness in the antebellum South.
2012The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 22: Science and medicine. Edited by James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson.
2013Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
2016Slavery at sea: Terror, sex, and sickness in the middle passage.
2017Medicalizing blackness: Making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840.
2017Contested bodies: Pregnancy, childrearing, and slavery in Jamaica.
2018The Caribbean and the medical imagination, 1764-1834. Slavery, disease and colonial modernity.
2021Medicine and healing in the age of slavery. Edited by Sean Morey Smith & Christopher D. E. Willoughby.
2022Masters of health: Racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools.