Richard B. Sheridan, Sheridan Richard B.

Doctors and Slaves

A Medical and Demographic History of Slavery in the British West Indies, 1680 1834

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Produktbeschreibung

In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680 1834.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9780521102384
• ISBN-10: 0521102383
• Artikelnr.: 25856720

Inhaltsangabe

1. The disease environments and epidemiology
2. The medical profession
3. African and Afro-West Indian medicine
4. The Guinea surgeons
5. Slaves and plantations
6. Labour, diet, and punishment
7. Morbidity and mortality
8. The problem of reproduction
9. Smallpox and slavery
10. Slave hospitals
11. Plantation medical practice
12. Slavery and medicine.