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Willoughby, Christopher

 
9781469672120: Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
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ISBN 10: 146967212X ISBN 13: 9781469672120
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022

Sinopsis

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 both northern and southern medical schools, Christopher D. E. Willoughby reveals that racist ideas were not external to the medical profession but fundamental to medical knowledge.

In this history of racial thinking and slavery in American medical schools, the founders and early faculty of these schools emerge as singularly influential proponents of white supremacist racial science. They pushed an understanding of race influenced by the theory of polygenesis―that each race was created separately and as different species―which they supported by training students to collect and measure human skulls from around the world. Medical students came to see themselves as masters of Black people's bodies through stealing Black people's corpses, experimenting on enslaved people, and practicing distinctive therapeutics on Black patients. In documenting these practices Masters of Health charts the rise of racist theories in U.S. medical schools, throwing new light on the extensive legacies of slavery in modern medicine.

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Acerca del autor

Christopher D. E. Willoughby is a fellow at the Huntington Library and Harvard University. He is also editor of the book Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2022
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
146967212X
ISBN 13 
9781469672120
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Número de páginas
282
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