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7 entries match Public Health [N02.500] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750] · Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine [K01.900.850]
1794 CE
#5453.1
A narrative of the proceedings of the black people during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications.
A refutation of slights by Matthew Carey in his Short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia (1793; No. 5451) to the important contributions of black people, many of whom served as nurses and…
1986 CE
#7957
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
2001 CE
#10335
Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle cell anemia and the politics of race and health.
"Set in Memphis, home of one of the nation's first sickle cell clinics, Dying in the City of the Blues reveals how the recognition, treatment, social understanding, and symbolism of the disease evolved in the twentiet…
1776 CE
#1601.1
Observations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.
Study of the health conditions and diseases of black slaves in the Americas. Digital facsimile of the 1776 edition from Google Books at this link. Second edition, expanded to two volumes. Paris: L'Auteur, 1792.
1803 CE
#8025
Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …
1939 CE
#6594
The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.
2009 CE
#13038
The good doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the struggle for social justice in health care.
"... documents the history of the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR), a group of health professionals who delivered health care to wounded protesters and victims of police violence during the Civil Rights Movem…