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Author	Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Title	Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner with Mazie Hough.
Imprint	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012]
	2012

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Author	Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Subject	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.
	Disease -- history -- Southeastern United States.
	History of Medicine -- Southeastern United States.
	History, 19th Century -- Southeastern United States.
	Human Body -- Southeastern United States.
	Race Relations -- Southeastern United States.
	Sex Factors -- Southeastern United States.
	Social Conditions -- Southeastern United States.
Alt Name	Hough, Mazie.

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Author	Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Subject	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.
	Disease -- history -- Southeastern United States.
	History of Medicine -- Southeastern United States.
	History, 19th Century -- Southeastern United States.
	Human Body -- Southeastern United States.
	Race Relations -- Southeastern United States.
	Sex Factors -- Southeastern United States.
	Social Conditions -- Southeastern United States.
Alt Name	Hough, Mazie.
Description	1 online resource
Bibliography Note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Description based on print version record.
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.
Summary	This study of medical treatment in the antebellum South argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.
Note	English.
ISBN	9780252036996 cloth : acid-free paper
	9780252094071 epub
	0252094077
	1283582767
	9781283582766
	9786613895219
	6613895210
	0252036999
	025208053X
	9780252080531
ISBN/ISSN	9786613895219
	40021126441
OCLC #	1097143519
Additional Format	Print version: Sex, sickness, and slavery 9780252036996 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2011046500

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