Sex, Sickness, and Slavery : Illness in the Antebellum South /

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This study of medical treatment in the antebellum South argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Otros Autores: Hough, Mazie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Sex differences > Social aspects.
Race > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Physicians.
Medicine > Practice.
Human body > Social aspects.
Diseases > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
social history.
history of medicine.
Histoire sociale.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire.
Race > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Differences entre sexes > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Corps humain > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecins > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Medecine > Pratique > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Maladies > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle > Sources.
Maladies > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Social Conditions
Sex Factors
Race Relations
Human Body
History, 19th Century
History of Medicine
Disease > history
Social history.
Sex factors in disease.
Medicine > History.
Race > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Sex differences > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Physicians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Medicine > Practice > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Southeastern United States
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Political Body
  • Constructing Race
  • Constructing Sex
  • Placed Bodies
  • Ambiguous Bodies
  • The Examined Body
  • The Unexamined Body
  • The Diseased Body
  • Conclusion: The Body Politic.

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