Kenneth F. Kiple, Virginia H. King

Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora

Diet, Disease and Racism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on slavery and racism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9780521236645
• ISBN-10: 0521236649
• Artikelnr.: 22897194

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. African Beginnings: Introduction to part I
1. The black man's cradle and the white man's grave
Part II. Immunities: Epidemiology and the Slave Trade: Introduction to part II
2. Yellow fever in black and white
3. Bad air in a new world
4. Tropical killers, race and the peculiar institution
Part III. Susceptibilities: Introduction to part III
5. 'Negro diseases': an introductory glimpse
6. Nutrients and nutriments
7. The children
8. Aliments and ailments
9. Selection for infection
10. Cholera and race
Part IV. Antebellum Medicine: Introduction to part IV
11. Slave medicine
12. Physicians versus the slaves
Part V. Sequelae and Legacy: Introduction to part V
13. Epilogue: cradle to grave
Notes
Bibliographic essay
Index.