Title Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840 / Rana A. Hogarth.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Making differences: race and yellow fever -- Black immunities and yellow fevers in the American Atlantic -- An African corps in a most distressed and sickly condition: yellow fever in the West Indies -- In sickness and slavery: black pathologies -- Incorrigible dirt eaters: contests for medical authority on Jamaican plantations -- Of paper trails and dirt eaters: West Indian medical knowledge in the antebellum South -- Disciplining blackness: hospitals -- That the asylum for deserted negroes is now complete for their reception: surveillance and sickness in Jamaica -- For the acquisition of practical knowledge: genealogies of medical exploitation in the South.
Summary	" ... Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge about black bodies to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject	African Americans -- Medical care -- Southern States -- History.
	African Americans -- Medical care.
	Southern States.
	History.
	Black people -- Medical care -- Caribbean Area -- History.
	Black people -- Medical care.
	Caribbean Area.
	Black people.
	Health and race -- Southern States -- History.
	Health and race.
	Health and race -- Caribbean Area -- History.
	Ethnic groups -- Diseases.
	Ethnic groups -- Diseases.
	Ethnic groups.
	Medical care -- Utilization -- Southern States -- History.
	Medical care -- Utilization.
	Medical care -- Utilization -- Caribbean Area -- History.
	Southeastern United States.
	Caribbean Region.
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Subject	Medical care.
Other Form:	Print version: Hogarth, Rana A. Medicalizing blackness. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] 9781469632865 (DLC) 2017011938 (OCoLC)975491033
ISBN	9781469632889 (electronic book)
	1469632888 (electronic book)
	1469632896
	9781469632896
	9781469632865
	1469632861
	9781469632872
	146963287X

Title Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840 / Rana A. Hogarth.

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