Rana A. Hogarth is assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
...nothing short of a brilliant analysis of the hand-in-hand
development of American capitalism, racism, classism, and the
"professionalism" of anatomy: foundations of modern-day medical
education/practice." - The Journal of African American History
Impressive in its geographic scope and heavily researched . . .
Medicalizing Blackness is a much-needed addition to both the
historiography of slavery and of medicine, and an excellent
methodological model for studying the interconnectedness of the
Atlantic World.--American Historical Review
A sharp, rigorous, stimulating, and thoroughly rewarding
investigation of medicine's key role in the manufacture,
manipulation and mobilisation of white racial notions of blackness
. . . . A model of academic and editorial excellence.--Social
History of Medicine
A strong and important new work, one that will be of value for
historians of Atlantic science and medicine as well as of race and
slavery.--Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Hogarth's insightful work will provoke important debates.--Journal
of the Civil War Era
Provides careful insight into the medical construction of race in
Jamaica and South Carolina during the period of slavery.--Journal
of Caribbean History
Shows that the idea that black and white bodies are somehow
physiologically and racially different from one another has a long
history, one rooted in slavery and racism. This is crucial context
for understanding the current state of medicine and serves as an
important corrective to assumptions about race. . . . Hogarth's
book is sure to generate both fruitful discussion and further
research in the critical history of medicine and race.--William and
Mary Quarterly
This project is especially strong as Hogarth reaches across
otherwise separate fields--the British Caribbean in the final
decades of debates over the slave trade and emancipation and the
newly independent slaveholding United States--to demonstrate the
way that medicine tied the Greater Caribbean region together.
Hogarth also effectively engages with efforts by historians of
slavery to study silences in the archive (of which there are always
many).--Isis Review
A useful book for historians interested in the intersections
between race and disability, the overlaps between disease and
disability, and the power of the medical profession in shaping the
understandings of so-called different bodies.--H-Net
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