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Birthing a Slave

Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

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$27.00 • £23.95 • €24.95

ISBN 9780674034921

Publication Date: 03/30/2010

416 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Acknowledgments
Editorial Note
Introduction
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
Notes
Index

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