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Pages: 315
Pages: 315
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Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbea
Language: en
Pages: 182
Pages: 182
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-15 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that thes
Language: en
Pages: 530
Pages: 530
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-08 - Publisher: Vintage
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • The first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects
Language: en
Pages: 310
Pages: 310
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Working Cures explores black health under slavery showing how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery and other African American healing practices became arts of resist