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Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840

Hogarth, Rana A., author

Overview

\"...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.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: African Americans Medical care Southern States History. / Blacks Medical care Caribbean Area History. / Health and race Southern States History. / Health and race Caribbean Area History. / Ethnic groups Diseases. / Medical care Utilization Southern States History. / Medical care Utilization Caribbean Area History.
• ISBN: 9781469632865, 1469632861, 9781469632872, 146963287X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RA448.5.N4 H64 2017	1	BOOK	GENERAL