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Medicine, science, and making race in Civil War America
- Title
- Medicine, science, and making race in Civil War America / Leslie A. Schwalm.
- Author
- Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 215 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subject
- United States Sanitary Commission > History
- United States Sanitary Commission
- 1800-1899
- Racism in medicine > United States > History > 19th century
- Scientific racism > United States > History > 19th century
- African Americans
- Medical care
- Racism in medicine
- Scientific racism
- Racism
- United States > History > Medical care. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > History > African Americans. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States
- United States > Confederate States of America
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-208) and index.
- Contents
- Militarizing race -- Commissioning race -- Narrating and enumerating race -- Anatomizing race -- The afterlife of race.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3018
- ISBN
- 9781469672687
- 1469672685
- 9781469672694
- 1469672693
- 9781469672700 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781469672717 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022029934
- OCLC
- 1336012592
- Author
- Schwalm, Leslie A. (Leslie Ann), 1956- author.
- Title
- Medicine, science, and making race in Civil War America / Leslie A. Schwalm.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-208) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. POSTBELLUM CONTINUANCE OF RACISM UNDER GUISE OF DIFFERENTIAL MED RESEARCH.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Other Form:
- Online version: Schwalm, Leslie A. Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2023 9781469672717 (OCoLC)1370495075
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3018