| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. By Sharla M. Fett. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xiv, 290 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2709-6. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5378-X.)

African American slave health and medicine are areas of important scholarly activity, as the works of Todd Savitt, Richard Steckel, Kenneth Kiple, and Virginia Himmelsteib King demonstrate. Heretofore, the biological impact of slavery has been viewed through the lens of medical science. In Working Cures, Sharla M. Fett moves beyond the biomedical approach, with its emphasis on diseases and therapies, to examine the experiential and political dimensions of slave health. The result is a fresh perspective that calls attention to the social, cultural, and political significance of healing for the enslaved African American.

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