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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 imbalance...
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.
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- Creator
- Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough
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- JSTOR ebooks
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 267 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 1283582767, 9786613895219, 0252036999, 9780252036996, 9780252080531, 0252094077, 025208053X, 9780252094071
- OCLC
- ocn842265916, on1097143519
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
- Disease -- history -- Southeastern United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- History of Medicine -- Southeastern United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- History, 19th Century -- Southeastern United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- Human Body -- Southeastern United States.
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- Race Relations -- Southeastern United States.
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- Sex Factors -- Southeastern United States.
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- Social Conditions -- Southeastern United States.
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