Sex, Sickness, and Slavery - Illness in the Antebellum South

Integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. This book argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.

About the author

Marli F. Weiner (1953-2009) was Adelaide and Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine and the author of several books, including "Place and Gender: Women in Maine History" and "Plantation Women: South Carolina Mistresses and Slaves, 1830-1880."Mazie Hough is an assistant professor of history and women's studies and the associate director of the Women in the Curriculum and Women's Studies program at the University of Maine. She is the author of "Rural Unwed Mothers: An American Experience, 1870-1950."

Summary

Integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. This book argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.

Product details

• Authors: Marli F. Weiner, Marli F./ Hough Weiner
• Assisted by: Mayzie Hough (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2014
• EAN: 9780252080531
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08053-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte der Medizin, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei