Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough.
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TextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780252094071
- 0252094077
- 1283582767
- 9781283582766
- 9786613895219
- 6613895210
- 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
- Medicine -- History
- Sex factors in disease
- Social history
- Disease -- history
- History of Medicine
- History, 19th Century
- Human Body
- Race Relations
- Sex Factors
- Social Conditions
- Southeastern United States
- Maladies -- Aspect social -- États-Unis (Sud) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Maladies -- Aspect social -- 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
- États-Unis (Sud) -- Relations raciales -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- États-Unis (Sud) -- Conditions sociales -- 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
- 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
- 1800-1899
- 614.4/27509034 23
- RA418.3.U6
- 2012 G-102
- QZ 11 AS9
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.
English.
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