# Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America, Vol. 1

By **Todd Savitt**

- ISBN-13: 9781606355121
- Publisher: Kent State University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 464
- Published: 31 Mar 2026

## About this book

An examination of the medical experiences of African Americans During the days of slavery in America, racism and often-faulty medical theories contributed to an atmosphere in which African Americans were seen as chattel: some white physicians claimed that African Americans had physiological and anatomical differences t

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