Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Schwalm, Leslie A.
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (233 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Militarizing Race -- Chapter Two: Commissioning Race -- Chapter Three: Narrating and Enumerating Race -- Chapter Four: Anatomizing Race -- Chapter Five: The Afterlife of Race -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W
Open Access
"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"--
1469672715 1469672707 9781469672700 9781469672717
22573/cats61658 JSTOR
United States Sanitary Commission--History.
United States Sanitary Commission.
1800-1899
Racism in medicine--History--United States--19th century.
Scientific racism--History--United States--19th century.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
African Americans.
Medical care.
Racism in medicine.
Scientific racism.
United States--History--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States.
History.
E621
599.97097309/034
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023. - 1 online resource (233 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Militarizing Race -- Chapter Two: Commissioning Race -- Chapter Three: Narrating and Enumerating Race -- Chapter Four: Anatomizing Race -- Chapter Five: The Afterlife of Race -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W
Open Access
"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"--
1469672715 1469672707 9781469672700 9781469672717
22573/cats61658 JSTOR
United States Sanitary Commission--History.
United States Sanitary Commission.
1800-1899
Racism in medicine--History--United States--19th century.
Scientific racism--History--United States--19th century.
HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
African Americans.
Medical care.
Racism in medicine.
Scientific racism.
United States--History--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States.
History.
E621
599.97097309/034