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Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rana A. Hogarth shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery.

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 9/30/2017 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781469632872, 978-1469632872
      ISBN10: 146963287X
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      Book Synopsis
      Examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rana A. Hogarth shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery.

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