Slavery and Medicine: Enslavement and Medical Practices in Antebellum LouisianaThis study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing the slaves' proactive management of medical care; brutality as a cause of the constant need for medical attention; and the health risks posed by arduous agricultural labor. This groundbreaking study offers insight into the health problems facing enslaved people, their attempts to deal with the causes and effects of illness and injury, and the slave owners' attitudes toward the medical treatment of slaves. The appendices present valuable data on the medical treatment of enslaved African Americans from the Touro Infirmary Archives that have never before been published. |
Contents
Part OneOverview of Enslavement and Medicine | 3 |
The Extent of Medical Care | 27 |
BrutalityPunishment and the Issue of Medical | 33 |
Protection of Property and Legislation | 45 |
Labor and Medical Health Care | 51 |
Part TwoAfricans Medical Theories and Practices | 69 |
Medical Management Practices and | 77 |
Medical Experiments Treatments Surgical | 99 |
Part ThreeAfrican Materia Medica and Enslavement | 119 |
African Perceptions of Slaveocracy Medicine | 127 |
African Agency in the Care and Treatment | 141 |
Summary and Conclusion | 155 |
Bibliographic Essay | 161 |
Appendices AD | 179 |
Bibliography | 235 |
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