Masters of Health : Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Willoughby, Christopher D. E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery.
Scientific racism.
Monogenism and polygenism.
Medicine > Study and teaching.
Medical education > Political aspects.
Medical colleges.
Discrimination in medical education.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Medical colleges > United States > History.
Discrimination in medical education > United States > History.
Scientific racism > United States > History.
Medicine > Study and teaching > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Racial science and medical schools in early America
  • The clinical-racial gaze
  • Training on Black people's bodies
  • Mastering anatomy
  • 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
  • The afterlives of slavery and racial science in U.S. medical education.

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