Medicine and Slavery: The Diseases and Health Care of Blacks in Antebellum Virginia

by Todd L. Savitt

Overview

Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination.

In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252008740
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	01/01/1981
Series:	Blacks in the New World
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Todd L. Savitt is a professor in the department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, and coeditor of Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South.