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African Americans - Health and hygiene

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  • A woman offers a watermelon to a sick man; he is cured and both start dancing; she holds up a medicine bottle. Coloured lithograph, 1890.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Precarious prescriptions : contested histories of race and health in North America / Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers, editors.

    | Date: [2014]
    • Books

    Blood sugar : racial pharmacology and food justice in Black America / Anthony Ryan Hatch.

    Hatch, Anthony Ryan, 1976- | Date: [2016]
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    Black man in a white coat : a doctor's reflections on race and medicine / Damon Tweedy, M.D.

    Tweedy, Damon | Date: [2015]
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    The health of slaves on southern plantations / by William Dosite Postell.

    Postell, William Dosité, 1908-1982. | Date: 1951
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    Sick from freedom : African-American illness and suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction / Jim Downs.

    Downs, Jim, 1973- | Date: [2012], ©2012
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