A01=Todd L. Savitt
Author_Todd L. Savitt
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252008740
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1981
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Widely regarded as the most comprehensive study of its kind, this volume offers valuable insight into the alleged medical differences between whites and blacks that translated as racial inferiority and were used to justify slavery and discrimination.
In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.
In Medicine and Slavery, Todd L. Savitt evaluates the diet, hygiene, clothing, and living and working conditions of antebellum African Americans, slave and free, and analyzes the diseases and health conditions that afflicted them in urban areas, at industrial sites, and on plantations.
Todd L. Savitt is a professor in the department of Medical Humanities at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, and coeditor of Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South.
