Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America.

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.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023.
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Online Access:Full text (open access)
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