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



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Autore: Weiner Marli Frances <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sex, sickness, and slavery [[electronic resource] ] : illness in the antebellum South / / Marli F. Weiner ; with Mazie Hough Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-58276-7
9786613895219
0-252-09407-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910785768903321
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