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Race and medicine in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America by Todd Lee Savitt is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences that made them well suited for slavery. These attitudes continued into the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras. In Race and Medicine historian Todd Savitt presents revised and updated versions of his seminal essays on the medical history of African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in the South. This collection examines a variety of aspects of African American medical history, including health and illnesses, medical experimentation, early medical schools and medical professionals, and slave life insurance. Savitt examines the history of sickle-cell anemia and identifies the first two patients with the disease noted in medical literature. He proposes an explanation of why the disease was not well known in the general African American population for at least 50 years after its discovery. He also explains why African Americans develop
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Todd Lee Savitt
- Publisher
- The Kent State University Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781612779911
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Medical, History
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