Medicalizing BlacknessRana A. Hogarth
Medicalizing Blackness
Rana A. Hogarth · 2017
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About the book
" ... 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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 290
- ISBN
- 9781469632865
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