Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America /

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"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States Sanitary Commission.
United States Sanitary Commission > History.
Scientific racism.
Racism in medicine.
Medical care.
African Americans.
Scientific racism > United States > History > 19th century.
Racism in medicine > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9781469672717
Acceso:Open Access

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