Medicalizing blackness: making racial difference in the atlantic world, 1780-1840
Auteur :
Hogarth, Rana A.
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9781469632865
Date de publication :
9 oct. 2017
Dimensions :
23,3 x 15,5 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
580 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rana A. Hogarth shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery.