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

by Marli F. Weiner

Book Overview

Marli F. Wiener skillfully 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. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period. Challenged with both helping to preserve the slave system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025208053X
• ISBN13: 9780252080531
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"