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Doctoring freedom the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation Cover Image E-book

Doctoring freedom [electronic resource] : the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation / Gretchen Long.

Long, Margaret Geneva, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 0807837393
  • ISBN: 9780807837399
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages)
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012]
  • Distributor: [Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2016]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-215) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
When the slaves got sick: antebellum medical practice -- Sickness rages fearfully among them: a wartime medical crisis and its implications -- We have come out like men: African American military medical care -- We have come to a conclusion to bind ourselves together: African American associations and medical care -- No license; nor no deplomer: regulating private medical practice and public space -- By nature specially fitted for the care of the sufferer: Black doctors, nurses, and patients after the war.
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Description based on PDF title page, viewed September 30, 2016.

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