Medicalizing Blackness

" ... 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"--

שנה

2017

שפה

English

הוצאה

University of North Carolina Press

מהדורות

4

עמודים

290

ISBN

9781469632865

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata