Sex, sickness, and slavery
Medicine, practice
Sex Factors
Human body, social aspects
Southern states, history
Southern states, race relations
Race
History, 19th Century
Sex differences
History of Medicine
Disease
Practice
Human body
Physicians
Slavery
Race relations
Medicine
Sources
Diseases
Social aspects
Social conditions
History
This study of medical treatment in the antebellum South 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 (by ackno…
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