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Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-

Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies 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.

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.



ISBN: 9781283582766 9786613895219 6613895210

LCCN: 2019717411

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Diseases--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
Diseases--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century--Sources.
Medicine--Practice--History--Southern States--19th century.
Physicians--History--Southern States--19th century.
Human body--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
Sex differences--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
Slavery--Social aspects--History--Southern States--19th century.
Race--Social aspects--History--Southern States--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

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic Books.

LC Class. No.: RA418 / .S497 2012