Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (Gender and American Culture)
Working Cures examines the relationship between healing, health, and power on Southern slave plantations. Framed through gender and American culture, Sharla M. Fett’s study explores the historical significance of medical practices and health within the institution of slavery.
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Working Cures explores healing and health on Southern slave plantations.
The book considers how medical knowledge and practices related to power in the context of slavery.
Its focus on gender and American culture places plantation health within a broader historical framework.
Written by Sharla M. Fett, this work offers a focused study of medicine, society, and power in American history.
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