Sex, Sickness, and Slavery Steve Martin Arguing that this pivotal year

Arguing that this pivotal year demands extended study

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Sex, Sickness, and Slavery Steve Martin Arguing that this pivotal yearHow white Southern doctors used science to defend slaveryMarli F. Weiner skillfully integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery argues that Southern physicians' scientific training and practice uniquely entitled them to formulate medical justification for the imbalanced racial hierarchies of the period.