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xiv, 264 pages ; 25 cm |
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Introduction -- Ch. 1. Dying to be free: the unexpected medical crises of war and emancipation -- Ch. 2. The anatomy of emancipation: the creation of a healthy labor force -- Ch. 3. Freedmen's hospitals: the medical division of the Freedmen's Bureau -- Ch. 4. Reconstructing an epidemic: smallpox among former slaves, 1862-1868 -- Ch. 5. The healing power of labor: disabled, orphaned, elderly, and female freed slaves in the postwar South -- Ch. 6. Narrating illness: freedpeople's health claims at Reconstruction's end -- Conclusion -- Epilogue. |
ISBN |
9780199758722 hardback |
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0199758727 hardback |
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99951055261 |
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99949256241 |
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