Doctoring freedom : the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation / Gretchen Long.

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Long, Gretchen [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culturePublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469601472
1469601478
9780807837399
0807837393

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Doctoring freedom.DDC classification:

362.108996073 23

LOC classification:

E185 .L384 2012

NLM classification:

WZ 80.5.B5

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Contents:

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ONE: When the slaves got sick: Antebellum medical practice -- TWO: Sickness rages fearfully among them: A wartime medical crisis and its implications -- THREE: We have come out like men: African American military medical care -- FOUR: We have come to a conclusion to bind ourselves together: African American associations and medical care -- FIVE: No license; nor no deplomer: Regulating private medical practice and public space -- SIX: By nature specially fitted for the care of the sufferer: Black doctors, nurses, and patients after the war -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In Doctoring Freedom, Gretchen Long tells the stories of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education, showing the important relationship between medical practice and political identit.

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For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been an empty victory. Even before emancipation, African Americans recognized that control of their bodies was a critical battleground in their struggle for autonomy, and they devised strategies to retain at least some of that control. In Doctoring Freedom, Gretchen Long tells the stories of African Americans who fought for access to both medical care and medical education, showing the important relationship between medical practice and political identit.