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

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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Autres auteurs: Hough, Mazie
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.