Science and medicine in the Old South

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Science in the Old South: a reappraisal / Ronald L. Numbers and Janet S. Numbers -- Science in the antebellum college: the University of Georgia, 1801-1860 / Thomas G. Dyer -- Scientific societies in the Old South / Lester D. Stephens -- Science on the plantation / William K. Scarborough -- Slavery and technology in the antebellum southern iron industry / Charles B. Dew -- Science and theology in the Old South / E. Brooks Holifield -- Disease environments of the antebellum South / K. David Patterson -- Medical men and the ecology of the Old South / James H. Cassedy -- The idea of southern medical distinctiveness / John Harley Warner -- A southern medical reform / John Harley Warner -- Public health in the Old South / Margaret H. Warner -- Southern madness / Samuel B. Thielman -- Unless powerful sick / Elizabeth Barnaby Keeney -- Black magic / Elliott J. Gorn -- Black health on the plantation / Todd L. Savitt.