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Languages : en
Pages : 764
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The Stethoscope and Virginia Medical Gazette
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Pages : 764
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Pages : 764
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Birthing a Slave
Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer. Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067426715X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer. Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.
The Stethoscope
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Pages : 946
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Temporary List of Medical Periodicals Belonging Principally to the Mussey Medical and Scientific Library, Deposited in the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385516099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385516099
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Temporary List of Medical Periodicals Belonging Principally to the Mussey Medical and Scientific Library
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The New England Journal of Medicine
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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The Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Author: Methodist Episcopal Church, South
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Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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National Library of Medicine Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 892
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