Examining the evolution of western medicine, the politics of reproduction and medical knowledge creation and circulation, and the symbiotic relationship between medicine, slavery and abolition, the books reviewed raise important questions about how the dynamics of race, gender and class inform medical research and practice, medical ethics and medical capitalism. An examination of the human costs of the Middle Passage, Slavery at Sea traces the violence inflicted upon the body of captive Africans, and ship surgeons’ roles in preserving and restoring captives’ health. Similarly interested in the importance of doctors keeping slaves healthy, Medical Bondage illustrates how modern gynecology developed from its experiments on the bodies of vulnerable populations,...
...MoreBook Katherine Paugh (2017) The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition.
Book Londa Schiebinger (2017) Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.
Book Sowande M. Mustakeem (2016) Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage.
Book Deirdre Cooper Owens (2017) Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology.
Book
Sowande M. Mustakeem;
(2016)
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
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Article
Tunc, Tanfer Emin;
(2010)
The Mistress, the Midwife, and the Medical Doctor: Pregnancy and Childbirth on the Plantations of the Antebellum American South, 1800--1860
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Book
Kathleen M. Brown;
(2023)
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
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Article
John Stewart;
(2020)
Chemistry and Slavery in the Scottish Enlightenment
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Essay Review
Jim Endersby;
(2018)
Acknowledging Limits
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Article
Dorit Brixius;
(2019)
From Ethnobotany to Emancipation: Slaves, Plant Knowledge, and Gardens on Eighteenth-Century Isle de France
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Article
Kate Ramsey;
(2021)
Powers of Imagination and Legal Regimes against “Obeah” in the Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Caribbean
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Book
Rubenfeld, Sheldon;
(2010)
Medicine after the Holocaust: From The Master Race to the Human Genome and Beyond
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Book
Weiner, Marli Frances;
Hough, Mazie;
(2012)
Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South
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Book
Fett, Sharla;
(2002)
Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations
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Book
Schwartz, Marie Jenkins;
(2006)
Birthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South
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Thesis
Chelsea L. Berry;
(2019)
Poisoned Relations: Medicine, Sorcery, and Poison Trials in the Contested Atlantic, 1680-1850
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Article
Muneal, Marc;
(2013)
Anatomy of an Afterthought: Charles Kingsley, the “Accursed Slavery Question,” and the Quadroon's Function in Two Years Ago
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Article
Denis, Adrián López;
(2005)
Melancholia, Slavery, and Racial Pathology in Eighteenth-Century Cuba
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Book
de Barros, Juanita;
Palmer, Steven Paul;
Wright, David;
(2009)
Health and Medicine in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800--1968
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Article
Kenny, Stephen C.;
(2007)
`I can do the child no good': Dr. Sims and the Enslaved Infants of Montgomery, Alabama
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Book
Covey, Herbert C.;
(2008)
African-American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments
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Chapter
Long, Gretchen;
(2014)
I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation: African American Doctors in the First Years of Freedom
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Article
Johnson, Ryan;
(2010)
“An All-White Institution”: Defending Private Practice and the Formation of the West African Medical Staff
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Book
Deacon, Harriet;
Phillips, H.;
Heyningen, E. Van;
(2004)
The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History
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