African-American Slave Medicine offers a critical examination of how African-American slaves medical needs were addressed during the years before and surroundin
Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist
Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks
“Engaging unique sources . . . Londa Schiebinger untangles the complex relationships between European and local physicians, healers, plants, and slavery.” �