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Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America

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This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority....

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Main Author: Schwalm, Leslie A. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2023
Subjects:
American Civil War
Social discrimination & inequality
History of medicine
Civil War
Civil War medicine
United States Sanitary Commission
race and medicine
military racism
military medicine
medical experimentation
scientific racism
anthropometry
Black soldiers
enslaved people
refugees from slavery
white physicians
autopsies
dissection
Black women
white women
burial
hospital workers
hospitals
northern racism
Black medical practitioners
contraband
disease
burial grounds
human remains
white philanthropy
segregation
racial inequalities
racial injustice
knowledge production
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