"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."

"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Science and Medicine 1 -- Abortion 25 -- Aerospace 29 -- Agriculture, Scientific 33 -- Alcohol and Alcoholism 37 -- American Indian Health and Medicine 41 -- Childbirth, Antebellum 46 -- Civil War Medicine 50 -- Climate and Weather 54 -- Drug Use 57 -- Education, Medical 62 -- Environmental Health 67 -- Eugenics 71 -- Folk Medicine 76 -- Gender and Health 80 -- Healers, Women 85 -- Health, African American 88 -- Health, Mental 92 -- Health, Public 96 -- Health, Rural 100 -- Health, Worker 203 -- Maternal and Child Health, Urban 108 -- Medical Care, Public Health, and Race 113 -- Medical Centers 117 -- Medical Science, Racial Ideology, and Practice, to Reconstruction 118 -- Medicine, States' Rights 120 -- Obesity 123 -- Physicians, African American 125 -- Poverty, Effects of 130 -- Professionalization of Science 133 -- Racialized Medicine 138 -- Racism, Scientific 143 -- Science and Religion (Evolution vs. Creationism) 147 -- Slavery and Medicine 151 -- Slaves in Medical Education and Medical Experiments 155 -- Surgeons General 159 -- Technological Education 167 -- Technology 172 -- Urban Health Conditions 176 -- Barnard, Frederick A. P. 181 -- Breckinridge, Mary. See Frontier Nursing Service Cancer Alley (Louisiana) 182 -- Carver, George Washington 183 -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 185 -- Country Doctor 188 -- Creation Science 190 -- DDT 192 -- DeBakey, Michael 194 -- Faith Healing 195 -- Frontier Nursing Service 197 -- Garden, Alexander 200 -- Geophagia and Pica 200 -- Guyton, Arthur C. 202 -- Hardy, James D. 204 -- Herty, Charles Holmes 206 -- HIV/AIDS 207 -- Hookworm 210 -- Hoxsey Therapy 211 -- Influenza Epidemic of 1918 212 -- LeConte, John and Joseph 214 -- Leprosy 215 -- Lewis, Henry Clay 219 -- Long, Crawford W. 221 -- Malaria 222 -- Maury, Matthew Fontaine 224 -- McDowell, Ephraim 225 -- Medical Committee for Human Rights 225 -- Medical Museums 228 -- Medicine Shows and Patent Medicines 229 -- Meharry Medical College 232 -- Moore, Samuel Preston 234 -- Pellagra 235 -- Poteat, William Louis 238 -- Reed, Walter 239 -- Research Triangle Park 240 -- Ruffin, Edmund 241 -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital 243 -- Savannah River Site 245 -- Scopes Trial 246 -- Sickle Cell Anemia 248 -- Sims, J. Marion 250 -- Slave Hospitals 252 -- Tuskegee Syphilis Study (United States Public Health Service Syphilis Study) 254 -- Whitfield (Mississippi State Hospital) 256 -- Yellow Fever 259.