Medicalizing Blackness (eBook)

Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

Rana A. Hogarth (Autor)

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2017
290 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3288-9 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "e;There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever."e; 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.

Autor

Rana A. Hogarth is assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.9.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 12 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Absalom Jones • antebellum medical dissertations before 1850 • “torrid zones” • Benjamin Rush • Cachexia Africana (dirt-eating) • Charleston, South Carolina • eighteenth-century treatises on health and plantation management • enslaved healers and medical competition • Greater Caribbean • Health of enslaved Africans/African Americans • James Thomson • Kingston Hospital and Asylum for Deserted Negroes • Kingston, Jamaica • Medical College of South Carolina • medical education in the South pre 1850s • medical knowledge in the early republic • obeah in Jamaica • Philadelphia Yellow Epidemic of 1793 • plantation medicine • Race and Medicine • racial immunity • racial immunity/ • racial immunity/racial disease susceptibility • slavery in the lowcountry and West Indies • The Medical Repository and early medical journals. • “torrid zones” • urban slave hospitals • William Fergusson, Esq. M.D. Inspector General of Military Hospitals
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3288-8 / 1469632888
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3288-9 / 9781469632889