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.
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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.
JSTOR
MIL
22573/ctt1c8qdz
389521
Sex, sickness, and slavery
9780252036996 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Diseases-- Social aspects-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century, Sources.
Diseases-- Social aspects-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.
Human body-- Social aspects-- Southern States-- History-- 19th century.