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Record Nr.

UNINA9910673910403321

Autore

Schwalm Leslie A (Leslie Ann), <1956->

Titolo

Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

979-88-908629-7-6

1-4696-7270-7

1-4696-7271-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Disciplina

599.97097309/034

973.77508996

Soggetti

Scientific racism

Racism in medicine

Medical care

African Americans

Scientific racism - United States - History - 19th century

Racism in medicine - United States - History - 19th century

History

Electronic books.

United States

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Militarizing race -- Commissioning race -- Narrating and enumerating race -- Anatomizing race -- The afterlife of race.

Sommario/riassunto

"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed



moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"--