Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery

CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington GambleIntroduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World, Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. WilloughbyZemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola, Lauren DerbyPoisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities, Chelsea BerryBlood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da Bahia,1793-1843, Mary E. HicksExamining Antebellum Medicine through Haptic Studies, Deirdre Cooper OwensUnbelievable Suffering: Rethinking Feigned Illness in Slavery and the Slave Trade, Elise A. MitchellMedicalizing Manumission: Slavery, Disability, and Medical Testimony in Late Colonial Colombia,Brandi M. WatersA Case Study in Charleston: Impressions of the Early National Slave Hospital, Rana A. HogarthFrom Skin to Blood: Interpreting Racial Immunity to Yellow Fever, Timothy James LockleyBlack Bodies, Medical Science, and the Age of Emancipation, Leslie A. SchwalmEpilogue: Black Atlantic Healing in the Wake, Sharla M. Fett