Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough.
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TextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781283582766
- 9786613895219
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- 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
- RA418 .S497 2012
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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.
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