Annual Announcement of Lectures in the Atlanta Medical College, for the Session of 1857
Annual Announcement of Lectures in the Atlanta Medical College, for the Session of 1857

Author: Atlanta Medical College

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 788

ISBN-13: 9780265741931

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Excerpt from Annual Announcement of Lectures in the Atlanta Medical College, for the Session of 1857: With a Catalogue of the Students and Graduates of 1856 The inconveniences attendant upon a course of lectures in a building not adapted to lecturing, particularly on Anatomy, Surgery and Chemis try, will be avoided by the occupancy, at the next Session, of the Col lege building, the massive granate walls of which are now completed. Contracts for roofing, &c., are already made, and will be rapidly carried out; so that not only will ample lecture rooms be in readiness, but a Spacious and airy dissecting room, in the upper story of the building. This, together with an abundant supply of. Sound and well preserved ma terial, will add greatly to the comfort and convenience of the student and teacher of Practical Anatomy. In the preservation and storage of subjects, those entrusted with that service heretofore in this Institution, have found no little inconvenience in the want of suitable rooms, yet the fact, it is thought, is fully estab lished, that dissections can be prosecuted with as much comfort and ad vantage to the student, in summer as in winter. If any yet doubt, they are invited to visit the dissecting room of the Atlanta Medical College, any time from the 15th of April to the middle of August next, to have those doubts removed. The dissecting room will be opened under the direction of the Demonstrator of Anatomy by the 15th of April, for any who may wish to dissect. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Birthing a Slave
Birthing a Slave

Author: Marie Jenkins Schwartz

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 067426715X

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The deprivations and cruelty of slavery have overshadowed our understanding of the institution's most human dimension: birth. We often don't realize that after the United States stopped importing slaves in 1808, births were more important than ever; slavery and the southern way of life could continue only through babies born in bondage. In the antebellum South, slaveholders' interest in slave women was matched by physicians struggling to assert their own professional authority over childbirth, and the two began to work together to increase the number of infants born in the slave quarter. In unprecedented ways, doctors tried to manage the health of enslaved women from puberty through the reproductive years, attempting to foster pregnancy, cure infertility, and resolve gynecological problems, including cancer. Black women, however, proved an unruly force, distrustful of both the slaveholders and their doctors. With their own healing traditions, emphasizing the power of roots and herbs and the critical roles of family and community, enslaved women struggled to take charge of their own health in a system that did not respect their social circumstances, customs, or values. Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. Birthing a Slave is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.