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The Resource Health and wellness in colonial America, Rebecca Tannenbaum

Health and wellness in colonial America, Rebecca Tannenbaum

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Tannenbaum gives readers a comprehensive overview picture of medical practices from 1600 to 1800. She covers all aspects of medicine from surgery to the role of religion in healing, and describes the way in which all three cultures in colonial America-- European, African, and Native American-- thought about medicine
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
xii, 249 pages
Contents
  • 1. Factors in health and wellness : The disease environment
  • Living conditions and life expectancies
  • Health and disease in a transformed America
  • 2. Education and training, learned and nonlearned : The training of Native American and African American practitioners
  • Anglo-American traditions
  • Changes in the eighteenth century
  • The first American medical schools
  • 3. Faith, religion, and medicine : Christianity and healing
  • Native American practices
  • African American religion and healing
  • Witchcraft and demonic possession
  • 4. Women's health : Beliefs about women's bodies : menstruation, sexuality, and conception
  • Pregnancy
  • Childbirth
  • Breastfeeding and breast health
  • Fertility and infertility
  • 5. Infants' and children's health : Infant and child care in Native American cultures
  • Infant and child care in Anglo-American cultures
  • Infant and child care in African American cultures
  • Accidents and injuries
  • Infectious disease
  • 6. Infectious disease : First contact epidemics
  • Infectious disease and colonial settlement
  • Fighting epidemic disease in the colonial city
  • 7. "Dangerous trades" and occupational health : The maritime trades
  • Female sex workers
  • Enslaved workers
  • 8. Surgery, dentistry, and orthopedics : Science, surgery, and anatomy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe
  • Who were the surgeons in America?
  • Treating trauma
  • Cutting for the stone
  • Breast cancer and mastectomy
  • Dentists and dental care
  • 9. The brain and mental disorders : Understandings of the brain in European American culture
  • Neurological disease
  • Intellectual disability
  • Mental illness
  • Eighteenth century changes
  • 10. The apothecary and his pharmacopeia : Native American traditions
  • Native American medicines and Europeans
  • African American traditions
  • African American exchanges of knowledge
  • Anglo-American apothecaries and medicines
  • 11. War and health : Colonial era warfare and weapons
  • Treating battlefield injuries
  • Infectious disease during wartime
  • Germ warfare?
  • Military hygiene, physicians, and hospitals
  • 12. Institutional facilities : Almshouses
  • The first American hospitals
  • 13. Disease, healing, and the arts : Almanacs and popular print
  • Home health guides
  • Cotton Mather's Angel of Bethesda
  • The poetry of Anne Bradstreet
  • Health and medicine in colonial era diaries
  • The arts in Native American and African American medicine
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9780313384912
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Health and wellness in colonial America
Title
Health and wellness in colonial America
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Rebecca Tannenbaum
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Language
eng
Summary
Tannenbaum gives readers a comprehensive overview picture of medical practices from 1600 to 1800. She covers all aspects of medicine from surgery to the role of religion in healing, and describes the way in which all three cultures in colonial America-- European, African, and Native American-- thought about medicine
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Tannenbaum, Rebecca J.
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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Health and wellness in daily life
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Diseases and history
  • Public health
  • Medicine
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians of North America
  • Medicine
  • Medicine
  • Medicine
  • History of Medicine
  • Public Health
  • United States
  • Indians, North American
  • History, 17th Century
  • History, 18th Century
  • Maladies et histoire
  • Santé publique
  • Médecine
  • Médecine
  • Médecine
  • history of medicine
  • Diseases and history
  • Indians of North America
  • Indians of North America
  • Medicine
  • Public health
  • United States
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Health and wellness in colonial America, Rebecca Tannenbaum
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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Contents
1. Factors in health and wellness : The disease environment -- Living conditions and life expectancies -- Health and disease in a transformed America -- 2. Education and training, learned and nonlearned : The training of Native American and African American practitioners -- Anglo-American traditions -- Changes in the eighteenth century -- The first American medical schools -- 3. Faith, religion, and medicine : Christianity and healing -- Native American practices -- African American religion and healing -- Witchcraft and demonic possession -- 4. Women's health : Beliefs about women's bodies : menstruation, sexuality, and conception -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth -- Breastfeeding and breast health -- Fertility and infertility -- 5. Infants' and children's health : Infant and child care in Native American cultures -- Infant and child care in Anglo-American cultures -- Infant and child care in African American cultures -- Accidents and injuries -- Infectious disease -- 6. Infectious disease : First contact epidemics -- Infectious disease and colonial settlement -- Fighting epidemic disease in the colonial city -- 7. "Dangerous trades" and occupational health : The maritime trades -- Female sex workers -- Enslaved workers -- 8. Surgery, dentistry, and orthopedics : Science, surgery, and anatomy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe -- Who were the surgeons in America? -- Treating trauma -- Cutting for the stone -- Breast cancer and mastectomy -- Dentists and dental care -- 9. The brain and mental disorders : Understandings of the brain in European American culture -- Neurological disease -- Intellectual disability -- Mental illness -- Eighteenth century changes -- 10. The apothecary and his pharmacopeia : Native American traditions -- Native American medicines and Europeans -- African American traditions -- African American exchanges of knowledge -- Anglo-American apothecaries and medicines -- 11. War and health : Colonial era warfare and weapons -- Treating battlefield injuries -- Infectious disease during wartime -- Germ warfare? -- Military hygiene, physicians, and hospitals -- 12. Institutional facilities : Almshouses -- The first American hospitals -- 13. Disease, healing, and the arts : Almanacs and popular print -- Home health guides -- Cotton Mather's Angel of Bethesda -- The poetry of Anne Bradstreet -- Health and medicine in colonial era diaries -- The arts in Native American and African American medicine
Control code
756577006
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xii, 249 pages
Isbn
9780313384912
Lccn
2012022212
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 648
System control number
(OCoLC)756577006
Label
Health and wellness in colonial America, Rebecca Tannenbaum
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-232) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
1. Factors in health and wellness : The disease environment -- Living conditions and life expectancies -- Health and disease in a transformed America -- 2. Education and training, learned and nonlearned : The training of Native American and African American practitioners -- Anglo-American traditions -- Changes in the eighteenth century -- The first American medical schools -- 3. Faith, religion, and medicine : Christianity and healing -- Native American practices -- African American religion and healing -- Witchcraft and demonic possession -- 4. Women's health : Beliefs about women's bodies : menstruation, sexuality, and conception -- Pregnancy -- Childbirth -- Breastfeeding and breast health -- Fertility and infertility -- 5. Infants' and children's health : Infant and child care in Native American cultures -- Infant and child care in Anglo-American cultures -- Infant and child care in African American cultures -- Accidents and injuries -- Infectious disease -- 6. Infectious disease : First contact epidemics -- Infectious disease and colonial settlement -- Fighting epidemic disease in the colonial city -- 7. "Dangerous trades" and occupational health : The maritime trades -- Female sex workers -- Enslaved workers -- 8. Surgery, dentistry, and orthopedics : Science, surgery, and anatomy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe -- Who were the surgeons in America? -- Treating trauma -- Cutting for the stone -- Breast cancer and mastectomy -- Dentists and dental care -- 9. The brain and mental disorders : Understandings of the brain in European American culture -- Neurological disease -- Intellectual disability -- Mental illness -- Eighteenth century changes -- 10. The apothecary and his pharmacopeia : Native American traditions -- Native American medicines and Europeans -- African American traditions -- African American exchanges of knowledge -- Anglo-American apothecaries and medicines -- 11. War and health : Colonial era warfare and weapons -- Treating battlefield injuries -- Infectious disease during wartime -- Germ warfare? -- Military hygiene, physicians, and hospitals -- 12. Institutional facilities : Almshouses -- The first American hospitals -- 13. Disease, healing, and the arts : Almanacs and popular print -- Home health guides -- Cotton Mather's Angel of Bethesda -- The poetry of Anne Bradstreet -- Health and medicine in colonial era diaries -- The arts in Native American and African American medicine
Control code
756577006
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xii, 249 pages
Isbn
9780313384912
Lccn
2012022212
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 648
System control number
(OCoLC)756577006

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