Masters of health : racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools /

Masters of health : racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Willoughby, Christopher D. E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Subjects:
African Americans > Social conditions > History.
Slavery > United States > History.
Monogenism and polygenism.
Medical education > Political aspects.
Medical colleges > United States > History.
Discrimination in medical education > United States > History.
Scientific racism > United States > History.
Medicine > Study and teaching > United States > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1. Foundations for a Racialized Curriculum
  • 1. Racial Science and Medical Schools in Early America
  • 2. The Clinical-Racial Gaze
  • Part 2. Anatomy and the Experience of Medical Education
  • 3. Training on Black People's Bodies
  • 4. Mastering Anatomy
  • Part 3. Expansion and Racial Medicine
  • 5. Skull Collecting, Medical Museums, and the International Dimensions of Racial Science
  • 6. Jeffries Wyman, Travel, and the Rise of a Racial Anatomist
  • 7. Race, Empire, and Environmental Medicine
  • Epilogue: The Afterlives of Slavery and Racial Science in U.S. Medical Education
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index