Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

• Autore: Schwalm Leslie A (Leslie Ann), <1956->
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Disciplina: 599.97097309/034; 973.77508996
• Soggetto topico: Scientific racism; Racism in medicine; Medical care; African Americans; Scientific racism - United States - History - 19th century; Racism in medicine - United States - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical care
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
• ISBN: 979-88-908629-7-6; 1-4696-7270-7; 1-4696-7271-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910673910403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II