Médecine et guérison à l'âge de l'esclavage

Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery 

Sean Morey Smith  & Christopher Willoughby (Editors)


Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (November 10, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807171219


 

 

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