Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

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By Sean Morey Smith

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CONTENTS:
Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble
"Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World," Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby
"Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola," Lauren Derby
"Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities," Chelsea Berry
"Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia,
1793–1843," Mary E. Hicks
"Examining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies," Deirdre Cooper Owens
"Unbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade," Elise A. Mitchell
"Medicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,"
Brandi M. Waters
"A Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital," Rana A. Hogarth
"From Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever," Timothy James Lockley
"Black Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation," Leslie A. Schwalm
"Epilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake," Sharla M. Fett

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery