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Medicalizing Blackness : Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 /
"In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, 'There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.' Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in me...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making difference : race and yellow fever. Black immunity and yellow fever in the American Atlantic
- An African corps in a most distressed and sickly condition : yellow fever in the West Indies
- In sickness and slavery : black pathologies. Incorrigible dirt eaters : contests for medical authority on Jamaican plantations
- Of paper trails and dirt eaters : West Indian medical knowledge in the antebellum South
- Disciplining blackness : hospitals. That the asylum for deserted negroes is now complete for their reception : surveillance and sickness in Jamaica
- For the acquisition of practical knowledge : genealogies of medical exploitation in the South.