Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South

Authors

Marie Jenkins Schwartz

ISBN

978-0-252-03699-6

Price

$60.00

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Abstract

Exploring Antebellum Medicine

Sex, Sickness, and Slavery is more about physicians than patients. It is an intellectual history of how doctors thought about illness, race, and gender. Doctors in the era were struggling to identify themselves as men of science, modernity, and stand....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.15.1.15

Recommended Citation

Schwartz, Marie Jenkins (2013) "Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 15 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.15.1.15
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol15/iss1/14