Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

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