Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner ; with Mazie Hough.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Other Authors: Hough, Mazie
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Diseases > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Medicine > Practice > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Physicians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Human body > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Sex differences > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Race > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xii, 267 pages ; 25 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The Political Body
  • Constructing Race
  • Constructing Sex
  • Placed Bodies
  • Ambiguous Bodies
  • The Examined Body
  • The Unexamined Body
  • The Diseased Body
  • Conclusion: The Body Politic.