Medicalizing blackness : making racial difference in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840 / Rana A. Hogarth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogarth, Rana A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Medical care--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

Black people--Medical care--Caribbean Area--History.

Black people.

Health and race--Southern States--History.

Health and race.

Health and race--Caribbean Area--History.

Ethnic groups--Diseases.

Ethnic groups.

Medical care--Utilization--Southern States--History.

Medical care.

Medical care--Utilization--Caribbean Area--History.

African Americans--Medical care.

Black people--Medical care.

Medical care--Utilization.

History.

Caribbean Area.

Southern States.

Black or African American--history.

Delivery of Health Care--ethnology.

Delivery of Health Care--history.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Southeastern United States.

Caribbean Region.

Medical Subjects:

Black or African American--history.

Delivery of Health Care--ethnology.

Delivery of Health Care--history.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Southeastern United States.

Caribbean Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

" ... 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Making differences: race and yellow fever

Black immunities and yellow fevers in the American Atlantic

An African corps in a most distressed and sickly condition: yellow fever in the West Indies

In sickness and slavery: black pathologies

Incorrigible dirt eaters: contests for medical authority on Jamaican plantations

Of paper trails and dirt eaters: West Indian medical knowledge in the antebellum South

Disciplining blackness: hospitals

That the asylum for deserted negroes is now complete for their reception: surveillance and sickness in Jamaica

For the acquisition of practical knowledge: genealogies of medical exploitation in the South.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469632865

1469632861

9781469632872

146963287X

OCLC:

975491033