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• Title:Birthing a slave : motherhood and medicine in the antebellum South / Marie Jenkins Schwartz.
  
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• Variant Title:Motherhood and medicine in the antebellum South
  
• Author/Creator:Schwartz, Marie Jenkins, 1946-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WQ11.AA1 S34 2006
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Childbirth--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Obstetrics--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Gynecology--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Motherhood--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Reproductive health--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Enslaved women--Health and hygiene--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Enslaved women--Medical care--Southern States--History--19th century.
  African American women--Health and hygiene--Southern States--History--19th century.
  African American women--Medical care--Southern States--History--19th century.
  Medicine--Southern States--History--19th century.
  
• Description:ix, 401 p. ; 22 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0674022025 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Procreation
  2. Healers
  3. Fertility
  4. Pregnancy
  5. Childbirth
  6. Postnatal complications
  7. Gynecological surgery
  8. Cancer and other tumors
  9. Freedwomen's health.