Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil WarJHU Press, 5 мар. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 272 This “informative” look at the causes of high mortality rates among black Civil War soldiers “gives readers some insight into current health disparities” (JAMA). Black soldiers in the American Civil War were far more likely to die of disease than were white soldiers. In Intensely Human, historian Margaret Humphreys explores why this uneven mortality occurred and how it was interpreted at the time. In doing so, she uncovers the perspectives of mid-nineteenth-century physicians and others who were eager to implicate the so-called innate inferiority of the black body. In the archival collections of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, Humphreys found evidence that the high death rate among black soldiers resulted from malnourishment, inadequate shelter and clothing, inferior medical attention, and assignments to hazardous environments. While some observant physicians of the day attributed the black soldiers’ high mortality rate to these circumstances, few medical professionals—on either side of the conflict—were prepared to challenge the “biological evidence” of white superiority. Humphreys shows how, despite sympathetic and responsible physicians’ efforts to expose the truth, the stereotype of black biological inferiority prevailed during the war and after. |
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... Union army an opportunity for scientific study and medical progress. The Sanitary Commission surveyed doctors who had treated large numbers of black soldiers, inquiring into areas of difference. Black soldiers were measured, weighed ...
... Union army an opportunity for scientific study and medical progress. The Sanitary Commission surveyed doctors who had treated large numbers of black soldiers, inquiring into areas of difference. Black soldiers were measured, weighed ...
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... Union army and its medical department for poor management and deliberate malfeasance in the care of black soldiers. These chapters also emphasize how little black troops could advocate for themselves. Many white men were literate and ...
... Union army and its medical department for poor management and deliberate malfeasance in the care of black soldiers. These chapters also emphasize how little black troops could advocate for themselves. Many white men were literate and ...
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... Union government creating vast systems to track the soldiers in its employ. What other company, then or since, has managed nearly 2 million men who had to be fed, clothed, paid, and cared for when sick? The Union government created for ...
... Union government creating vast systems to track the soldiers in its employ. What other company, then or since, has managed nearly 2 million men who had to be fed, clothed, paid, and cared for when sick? The Union government created for ...
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... Union was able to delay taking this unpopular step until March 1863. The monster of war gobbled men at a great rate, and both sides were largely dependent on volunteer armies ... army age in the North, The Black Body at.
... Union was able to delay taking this unpopular step until March 1863. The monster of war gobbled men at a great rate, and both sides were largely dependent on volunteer armies ... army age in the North, The Black Body at.
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... army age in the North, but the lands that constituted the Union sphere of influence expanded continually through the war, bringing thousands of black men under the stars and stripes. Northerners were not anxious to make soldiers out of ...
... army age in the North, but the lands that constituted the Union sphere of influence expanded continually through the war, bringing thousands of black men under the stars and stripes. Northerners were not anxious to make soldiers out of ...
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Biology and Destiny | |
Medical Care | |
Region Disease and the Vulnerable Recruit | |
Louisiana | |
Death on the Rio Grande | |
Telling the Story | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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