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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Other Authors: Hough, Mazie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Medicine > Practice > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Physicians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Sex differences > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Race > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Medicine > History.
Sex factors in disease.
Social history.
Disease > history
History of Medicine
History, 19th Century
Human Body
Race Relations
Sex Factors
Social Conditions
Sociologie de la santé > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociologie de la santé > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle > Sources.
Médecine > Pratique > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecins > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Corps humain > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Différences entre sexes > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Race > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
Histoire sociale.
history of medicine.
social history.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Social history
Sex factors in disease
Medicine
Diseases > Social aspects
Human body > Social aspects
Medicine > Practice
Physicians
Race relations
Race > Social aspects
Sex differences > Social aspects
Slavery > Social aspects
Social conditions
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Southeastern United States
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Southern States
Electronic books.
History
Sources
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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