Masters of health racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools
"Medical science in antebellum America was organized around a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be viable as experimental subjects, as cadavers, and for use in the training of medical students. By taking a hard look at the racial ideas of bot...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press
[2022]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47449585*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1. Foundations for a Racialized Curriculum
- 1. Racial Science and Medical Schools in Early America
- 2. The Clinical-Racial Gaze
- Part 2. Anatomy and the Experience of Medical Education
- 3. Training on Black People's Bodies
- 4. Mastering Anatomy
- Part 3. Expansion and Racial Medicine
- 5. Skull Collecting, Medical Museums, and the International Dimensions of Racial Science
- 6. Jeffries Wyman, Travel, and the Rise of a Racial Anatomist.
- 7. Race, Empire, and Environmental Medicine
- Epilogue: The Afterlives of Slavery and Racial Science in U.S. Medical Education
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
