Masters of health : racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools / Christopher D.E. Willoughby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willoughby, Christopher D. E., author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Study and teaching--United States--History.

Medicine.

Scientific racism--United States--History.

Scientific racism.

Discrimination in medical education--United States--History.

Discrimination in medical education.

Medical colleges--United States--History.

Medical colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

In this history of racial thinking and slavery in American medical schools, the founders and early faculty of these schools emerge as singularly influential proponents of white supremacist racial science.

Contents:

Racial science and medical schools in early America

The clinical-racial gaze

Training on Black people's bodies

Mastering anatomy

Skull collecting, medical museums, and the international dimensions of racial science

Jeffries Wyman, travel, and the rise of a racial anatomist

Race, empire, and environmental medicine

The afterlives of slavery and racial science in U.S. medical education.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 12, 2024).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

979-88-908588-0-1

979-88-908588-1-8

1-4696-7186-7

OCLC:

1347028197