Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientific racism.

Racism in medicine.

Medical care.

African Americans.

Scientific racism--United States--History--19th century.

Racism in medicine--United States--History--19th century.

United States.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.

United States Sanitary Commission.

United States Sanitary Commission--History.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Militarizing race

Commissioning race

Narrating and enumerating race

Anatomizing race

The afterlife of race.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Schwalm, Leslie A. Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

ISBN:

979-88-908629-7-6

1-4696-7270-7

1-4696-7271-5

OCLC:

1370495075