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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.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Diseases -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Diseases -- Social aspects.
Southern States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Diseases -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Medicine -- Practice -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Medicine -- Practice.
Physicians -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Physicians.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Sex differences -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Sex differences -- Social aspects.
Sex differences.
Slavery -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Slavery -- Social aspects.
Slavery.
Race -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
Race -- Social aspects.
Race.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Race relations.
Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Added Author Hough, Mazie.
Other Form: Print version: Sex, sickness, and slavery 9780252036996 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2011046500
ISBN 9780252036996 cloth : acid-free paper
9780252094071 epub
0252094077
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9781283582766
9786613895219
6613895210
0252036999
025208053X
9780252080531
Standard No. 9786613895219
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