TY - JOUR
AU - Bond, Beverly G.
AB - Book Reviews 1229 tem. A concluding chapter explores freedom’s new and ever-increasing physical and emotion- meaning for freedwomen’s health. al price for women. As a result, because of their Slave births, long a concern of slavehold- childbearing potential, females experienced ers, became central to slavery’s continuance slavery die ff rently from males. Finally, the col- with the outlawing of the foreign slave trade laboration between planter and physician, while in 1808. A struggle over birthing and moth- contributing to the medicalization of childbirth ering ensued, one that pitted the planter and and the professionalization of medicine, made the physician against the bondwoman. Female doctors proponents of slavery. slaves were valued for their productive labor Birthing a Slave is exhaustively researched, and childbearing potential. Aspirations of sci- engagingly written, and persuasively argued, entific management and professionalization in and it skillfully blends social and medical his- medicine led planters to recruit physicians in tory. The volume is a major contribution to the achieving those ends, and doctors were willing literature of slavery, and it will have a wide ap- collaborators. They were motivated by com- peal and enrich the work of a variety of schol- passion, economics, and the professional sta- 
TI - Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/25094644
DA - 2007-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/women-shaping-the-south-creating-and-confronting-change-ofwpLE46dW
SP - 1229
EP - 1230
VL - 93
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -