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Author Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-

Title Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
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Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject 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.
Disease -- history
History of Medicine
History, 19th Century
Human Body
Race Relations
Sex Factors
Social Conditions
history of medicine.
social history.
MEDICAL -- Epidemiology.
MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Social history
Sex factors in disease
Medicine
Diseases -- Social aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Medicine -- Practice
Physicians
Race relations
Race -- Social aspects
Sex differences -- Social aspects
Slavery -- Social aspects
Social conditions
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Southeastern United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015144
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Hough, Mazie
LC no. 2019717411
ISBN 9780252094071
0252094077
1283582767
9781283582766
9786613895219
6613895210