Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840

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Label

Medicalizing blackness : making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840

Title remainder

making racial differences in the Atlantic world, 1780-1840

Statement of responsibility

Rana A. Hogarth

Creator

• Hogarth, Rana A

Author

• Hogarth, Rana A

Subject

• African Americans -- Medical care
• African Americans -- Medical care -- Southern States -- History
• African Americans -- history
• Blacks -- Medical care
• Blacks -- Medical care -- Caribbean Area -- History
• Caribbean Area
• Caribbean Region
• Caribbean region
• Delivery of Health Care -- ethnology
• Delivery of Health Care -- history
• Electronic book
• Ethnic groups -- Diseases
• Ethnic groups -- Diseases
• Health and race
• Health and race -- Caribbean Area -- History
• Health and race -- Southern States -- History
• History
• History, 18th Century
• History, 19th Century
• Karibik
• Kolonialismus
• Medical care -- Utilization
• Medical care -- Utilization -- Caribbean Area -- History
• Medical care -- Utilization -- Southern States -- History
• Medizin
• Medizinische Versorgung
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
• Rassendiskriminierung
• Schwarzamerikaner
• Schwarze ..
• Sklaverei
• Southeastern United States
• Southern States
• USA -- Südatlantische Staaten
• 15.85 history of America
• Ärztliche Behandlung
• USA -- Südstaaten
• 71.37 ethnic groups

Genre

• History
• Electronic book

Language

eng

Summary

" In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked,'There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.' Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth 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 to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy."--

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EBSCOhost resource page, viewed November 1, 2021

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

362.108996/073

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

RA448.5.N4

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WA 300 AS9