1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812905603321

Autore

McCaskill Barbara

Titolo

Love, liberation, and escaping slavery : William and Ellen Craft in cultural memory / / Barbara McCaskill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Georgia ; ; London, [England] : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8203-4724-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Collana

A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund Publication

Disciplina

306.3/620922

Soggetti

Fugitive slaves - United States

Fugitive slaves - England

Enslaved persons - Georgia

African Americans

Spouses - United States

Racially mixed women - United States

Abolitionists - United States

Antislavery movements - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction. The Crafts and the Memory of Slavery""; ""One. The “Thrilling� Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Georgia""; ""Two. Boston�s Glorious Fugitives""; ""Three. Running a Thousand Miles in England""; ""Four. The Boston Libel Trial of William Craft""; ""Epilogue. A Story to Pass Down""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

The spectacular 1848 escape of William and Ellen Craft (1824-1900; 1826-1891) from slavery in Macon, Georgia, is a dramatic story in the annals of American history. Ellen, who could pass for white, disguised herself as a gentleman slaveholder; William accompanied her as his "master's" devoted slave valet; both traveled openly by train, steamship, and carriage to arrive in free Philadelphia on Christmas Day. In Love,



Liberation, and Escaping Slavery, Barbara McCaskill revisits this dual escape and examines the collaborations and partnerships that characterized the Crafts' activism for the next

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298062603321

Autore

Robbins Brent Dean

Titolo

The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture : The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience / / by Brent Dean Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9781349953561

1349953563

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages)

Disciplina

615.781

Soggetti

Critical psychology

Emotions

Psychology

Social sciences - History

Social medicine

Critical Psychology

Emotion

History of Psychology

Medical Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture -- 2. Confronting the Cadaver: The Denial of Death in Modern Medicine -- 3. Time and Efficiency in the Age of Calculative Rationality: A Metabletic Entry Point -- 4. The Zombie Body of Linear Perspective Vision -- 5. Applications of Terror Management Theory -- 6. Terror Management in Medical Culture -- 7. Dehumanization in Modern Medicine and Science -- 8. Objectification of the Body as a Terror Management Defense -- 9. The



Objectification of Women and Nature -- 10. The Role of the Medical Cadaver in the Genesis of Enlightenment-Era Science and Technology -- 11. A Theological Context -- 12. The Changing Nature of the Cadaver -- 13. Anesthetic Culture -- 14. Psychiatry's Collusion with Anesthetic Culture -- 15. Mindfulness-the Way of the Heart.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines how modern medicine's mechanistic conception of the body has become a defense mechanism to cope with death anxiety. Robbins draws from research on the phenomenology of the body, the history of cadaver dissection, and empirical research in terror management theory to highlight how medical culture operates as an agent which promotes anesthetic consciousness as a habit of perception. In short, modern medicine's comportment toward the cadaver promotes the suppression of the memory of the person who donated their body. This suppression of the memorial body comes at the price of concealing the lived, experiential body of patients in medical practice. Robbins argues that this style of coping has influenced Western culture and has helped to foster maladaptive patterns of perception associated with experiential avoidance, diminished empathy, death denial, and the dysregulation of emotion. .