Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South - Couverture rigide

Weiner, Marli F.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252036999 ISBN 13 : 9780252036996

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2012

Synopsis

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery Shows how white Southern doctors used science to defend slavery Full description

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Challenged with both helping to preserve the slave system (by acknowledging and preserving clear distinctions of race and sex) and enhancing their own authority (with correct medical diagnoses and effective treatment), doctors sought to understand bodies that did not necessarily fit into neat dichotomies or agree with suggested treatments. Expertly drawing the dynamic tensions during this period in which Southern culture and the demands of slavery often trumped science, Weiner explores how doctors struggled with contradictions as medicine became a key arena for debate over the meanings of male and female, sick and well, black and white, North and South.

Revue de presse :

"Marli F. Weiner takes up questions of the body, sex, and race with insight and sophistication, leading the reader through a persuasive reading of physicians' medical reasoning and political self-interest. She convincingly reveals physicians as major political actors in this period and shows how science underwrote the power of white men." --Steven M. Stowe, author of Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0252036999
• ISBN 13: 9780252036996
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 267