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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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JSTOR
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MIL
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22573/ctt1c8qdz
Stock Number
389521
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Title
Sex, sickness, and slavery
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9780252036996 (cloth : acid-free paper)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.