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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Medical care—Southern States—History [Browse]
• Black people—Medical care—Caribbean Area—History [Browse]
• Health and race—Southern States—History [Browse]
• Health and race—Caribbean Area—History [Browse]
• Ethnic groups—Diseases [Browse]
• Medical care—Utilization—Southern States—History [Browse]
• Medical care—Utilization—Caribbean Area—History [Browse]

Summary note

" ... Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author 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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-251) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part I. Making difference: race and yellow fever. Black immunity and yellow fever in the American Atlantic ; An African corps in a most distressed and sickly condition: yellow fever in the West Indies
• Part II. 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
• Part III. 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
• Epilogue.

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ISBN

• 9781469632865 ((cloth))
• 1469632861 ((cloth))
• 9781469632872 ((pbk))
• 146963287X ((pbk))

LCCN

2017011938

OCLC

975491033

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