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Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

- Illness in the Antebellum South

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Integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. This book 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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780252080531
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 288
  • Udgivet:
  • 4. september 2014
  • Størrelse:
  • 156x235x23 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 426 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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Integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. This book 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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