Sex, sickness, and slavery [[electronic resource] ] : illness in the antebellum South / / Marli F. Weiner ; with Mazie Hough

• Autore: Weiner Marli Frances <1953->
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 614.42750903
• Soggetto topico: Diseases - Social aspects - Southern States - History - 19th century; 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
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations History 19th century; Southern States Social conditions 19th century
• Altri autori: HoughMazie
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sex, sickness, and slavery
• ISBN: 1-283-58276-7; 9786613895219; 0-252-09407-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785768903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II