03511cam a2200649 4500 2797059979 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781469672717 1469672715 B0BFGDBSPL Amazon d886661a-a9f1-4a8c-8e76-f61cda6cda99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9243421 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Schwalm, Leslie A. Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America [Bridges eBook]. The University of North Carolina Press, 2023. United States Sanitary Commission. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Black medical practitioners. medical experimentation. refugees from slavery. Civil War medicine. white philanthropy. Military Medicine. scientific racism. race and medicine. hospital workers. White Physicians. enslaved people. northern racism. military racism. Burial Grounds. black soldiers. human remains. anthropometry. black women. segregation. white women. Dissection. contraband. Hospitals. Civil War. autopsies. disease. burial. HTML:This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority under the guise of medical and scientific authority. In particular, the Sanitary Commission and Army medical personnel conducted wartime research aimed at proving Black medical and biological inferiority. They not only subjected Black soldiers and refugees from slavery to substandard health care but also scrutinized them as objects of study. This mistreatment of Black soldiers and civilians extended after life to include dissection, dismemberment, and disposal of the Black war dead in unmarked or mass graves and medical waste pits. Simultaneously, white medical and scientific investigators enhanced their professional standing by establishing their authority on the science of racial difference and hierarchy.<br /> Drawing on archives of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, recollections of Civil War soldiers and medical workers, and testimonies from Black Americans, Leslie A. Schwalm exposes the racist ideas and practices that shaped wartime medicine and science. Painstakingly researched and accessibly written, this book helps readers understand the persistence of anti-Black racism and health disparities during and after the war. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Medical. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d886661a-a9f1-4a8c-8e76-f61cda6cda99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d886661a-a9f1-4a8c-8e76-f61cda6cda99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)