First edition, first printing.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A collection of revised and updated essays by Savitt, professor of medical humanities and history at the Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, examining the medical history of African Americans in the South from the antebellum period through the early twentieth century.
Topics include the history of sickle-cell anemia, medical experimentation on enslaved people, African American medical education, and the formation of a Black medical profession.
Boards Near Fine; binding tight and square; text block bright and unmarked throughout.
Dust jacket Near Fine with only light handling wear.
Small used-bookseller inventory sticker to spine, removable.