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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463045403321

Titolo

Science & medicine [[electronic resource] /] / James G. Thomas, Jr. & Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4696-0143-5

0-8078-3743-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 281 pages) : illustrations

Collana

New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; ; v. 22

Altri autori (Persone)

ThomasJames G (James George)

WilsonCharles Reagan

Disciplina

975.003

Soggetti

Science - Southern States

Medicine - Southern States

Electronic books.

Southern States Social conditions Encyclopedias

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; General Introduction; Introduction; SCIENCE AND MEDICINE; Abortion; Aerospace; Agriculture, Scientific; Alcohol and Alcoholism; American Indian Health and Medicine; Childbirth, Antebellum; Civil War Medicine; Climate and Weather; Drug Use; Education, Medical; Environmental Health; Eugenics; Folk Medicine; Gender and Health; Healers, Women; Health, African American; Health, Mental; Health, Public; Health, Rural; Health, Worker; Maternal and Child Health, Urban; Medical Care, Public Health, and Race; Medical Centers

Medical Science, Racial Ideology, and Practice, to ReconstructionMedicine, States' Rights; Obesity; Physicians, African American; Poverty, Effects of; Professionalization of Science; Racialized Medicine; Racism, Scientific; Science and Religion (Evolution vs. Creationism); Slavery and Medicine; Slaves in Medical Education and Medical Experiments; Surgeons General; Technological Education;



Technology; Urban Health Conditions; Barnard, Frederick A. P.; Cancer Alley (Louisiana); Carver, George Washington; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Country Doctor; Creation Science; DDT

DeBakey, MichaelFaith Healing; Frontier Nursing Service; Garden, Alexander; Geophagia and Pica; Guyton, Arthur C.; Hardy, James D.; Herty, Charles Holmes; HIV/AIDS; Hookworm; Hoxsey Therapy; Influenza Epidemic of 1918; LeConte, John and Joseph; Leprosy; Lewis, Henry Clay; Long, Crawford W.; Malaria; Maury, Matthew Fontaine; McDowell, Ephraim; Medical Committee for Human Rights; Medical Museums; Medicine Shows and Patent Medicines; Meharry Medical College; Moore, Samuel Preston; Pellagra; Poteat, William Louis; Reed, Walter; Research Triangle Park; Ruffin, Edmund

St. Jude Children's Research HospitalSavannah River Site; Scopes Trial; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sims, J. Marion; Slave Hospitals; Tuskegee Syphilis Study (United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study); Whitfield (Mississippi State Hospital); Yellow Fever.