Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South /

Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-, Hough, Mazie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
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.
Medicine > History.
Sex factors in disease.
Social history.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
History
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