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Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the ~ In the antebellum South slaveholders interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter
Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the ~ While at times deeply disturbing and illuminating Marie Schwartz’ exploration of birthing in the slave communities of the pre civil war Antebellum South unveils the problematic practices that were executed as the professionalization and modernization of obstetrics moved away from the hands of
Birthing a Slave — Marie Jenkins Schwartz Harvard ~ In the antebellum South slaveholders’ interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter
Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the ~ Marie Jenkins Schwartzs Birthing a Slave attempts to paint a comprehensive picture of womens reproductive health in the slave quarters of the antebellum south In pursuing this laudable if difficult task Schwartz has been diligent in locating plantation records WPA interviews with former slaves case reports in contemporary medical journals and other relevant primary source material
Project MUSE Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine ~ Marie Schwartz has produced a fascinating and disturbing account of slave womens experiences of fertility childbirth and gynecological disorders under a system of domination and exploitation Birthing a Slave is equally a history of Southern doctors attempts to professionalize medicine in the antebellum era
Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the ~ Birthing a Slave is exhaustively researched engagingly written and persuasively argued and it skillfully blends social and medical history The volume is a major contribution to the literature of slavery and it will have a wide appeal and enrich the work of a variety of scholars especially those interested in the South and slavery society
Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the ~ In the antebellum South slaveholders interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth and the two began to work together
Project MUSE Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine ~ Antebellum physicians worked within the particular system of slavery often bending to its needs believing or acting as if they believed that a black womans destiny was to serve her owner Thus southern medicine was distinctive in the repeated collaboration that physicians offered to slaveholders to maintain the economic value of black women
Birthing a Slave Motherhood and Medicine in the ~ In the antebellum South slaveholders interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter
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