Book ID: CBB000771512

Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South (2006)

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Schwartz, Marie Jenkins (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: ix + 401 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Reviewed By

Review Leavitt, Judith W. (2007) Review of "Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (p. 887). unapi

Review Garamella, Jasmine A. (2007) Review of "Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 201). unapi

Review Wall, L. Lewis (2009) Review of "Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 263). unapi

Review Kovalovich Weaver, Karol (2007) Review of "Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South". Georgia Historical Quarterly (p. 224). unapi

Essay Review Fett, Sharla M. (2009-10) Race, Medicine and the South. Journal of Social History (pp. 175-182). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Arena, Francesca
Michelle Millar Fisher
Claudia Jeanne Ford
Waggoner, Miranda R.
Brian Gurrin
Amber Winick
Journals
Social History of Medicine
Women's History Review
Spontaneous Generations
Past and Present
Medical History
Gesnerus
Publishers
University of North Carolina Press
Antioch University
University of Wisconsin at Madison
University of California Press
Publications de l'Université de Provence
MIT Press
Concepts
Childbirth
Medicine
Maternal health services
Mothers and children
Reproductive medicine
Medicine and race
People
Farr, William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Early modern
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Virginia (U.S.)
Dublin (Ireland)
Atlantic Ocean
Uganda
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