Doctoring freedom : the politics of African American medical care in slavery and emancipation / by Gretchen Long.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2012], ©2012.

xi, 234 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-215) and index.

When the slaves got sick : antebellum medical practice -- Sickness rages fearfully among them : a wartime medical crisis and its implications -- We have come out like men : African American military medical care -- We have come to a conclusion to bind ourselves together : African American associations and medical care -- No license; nor no deplomer : regulating private medical practice and public space -- By nature specially fitted for the care of the sufferer : black doctors, nurses, and patients after the war.