Rana A Hogarth: 1 book
Medicalizing Blackness
Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses...
