Sex, sickness, and slavery: illness in the antebellum south
Auteur :
Weiner, Marli F.
Éditeur :
University of Illinois Press
ISBN :
9780252080531
Date de publication :
4 sept. 2014
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 x 2,3 cm
Poids :
426 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.