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Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

Name: Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469628332
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Contributors:

Gretchen Long

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Medical

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Disease & Health Issues, History

Book Topic:

American

Series:

The John Hope Franklin African American History and Culture

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Release Date:

2016-02-01

ISBN 13:

9781469628332

Weight:

0.86 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.57 inches

Pages:

248

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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 identity.
Working closely with antebellum medical journals, planters' diaries, agricultural publications, letters from wounded African American soldiers, WPA narratives, and military and Freedmen's Bureau reports, Long traces African Americans' political acts to secure medical care: their organizing mutual-aid societies, their petitions to the federal government, and, as a last resort, their founding of their own medical schools, hospitals, and professional organizations. She also illuminates work of the earliest generation of black physicians, whose adult lives spanned both slavery and freedom. For African Americans, Long argues, claiming rights as both patients and practitioners was a political and highly charged act in both slavery and emancipation.

About the Author
Long, Gretchen: - Gretchen Long is associate professor of history at Williams College.

Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation

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