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Author:

Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-

Title:

Sex, sickness, and slavery : illness in the antebellum South / Marli F. Weiner ; with Mazie Hough.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xii, 267 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Diseases--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Diseases--History--Southern States--History--19th century--Sources.
Medicine--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Physicians--Southern States--History--19th century.
Human body--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Sex differences--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Slavery--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Race--History--Southern States--History--19th century.
Southern States--History--History--19th century.
Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Other Authors:

Hough, Mazie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: The Political Body -- Constructing Race -- Constructing Sex -- Placed Bodies -- Ambiguous Bodies -- The Examined Body -- The Unexamined Body -- The Diseased Body -- Conclusion: The Body Politic.

ISBN:

0252036999 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780252036996 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)759909880

LCCN:

2011046500

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)