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"Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of bot...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Willoughby, Christopher D. E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Temas:
African Americans > Social conditions > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Monogenism and polygenism.
Medical education > Political aspects.
Medical colleges > United States > History.
Discrimination in medical education > United States > History.
Scientific racism > United States > History.
Medicine > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Enseignement médical > Aspect politique.
Écoles de médecine > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination dans l'enseignement de la médecine > États-Unis > Histoire.
Médecine > Étude et enseignement > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Slavery
Scientific racism
Monogenism and polygenism
Medicine > Study and teaching
Medical education > Political aspects
Medical colleges
Discrimination in medical education
African Americans > Social conditions
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1. Foundations for a Racialized Curriculum
  • Racial Science and Medical Schools in Early America
  • The Clinical-Racial Gaze
  • Part 2. Anatomy and the Experience of Medical Education
  • Training on Black People's Bodies
  • Mastering Anatomy
  • Part 3. Expansion and Racial Medicine
  • Skull Collecting, Medical Museums, and the International Dimensions of Racial Science
  • Jeffries Wyman, Travel, and the Rise of a Racial Anatomist
  • Race, Empire, and Environmental Medicine
  • Epilogue: The Afterlives of Slavery and Racial Science in U.S. Medical Education.

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