Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840

CONTENTS
Prologue ​
Acknowledgements ​
Introduction ​

PART I  |  Making Difference: Race and Yellow Fever
1. Black Immunity and Yellow Fever in the American Atlantic 
2. An African Corps in a Most Distressed and Sickly Condition: Yellow Fever in the West Indies

PART II  |   In Sickness and Slavery: Black Pathologies
3. Incorrigible Dirt Eaters: Contests for Medical Authority on Jamaican Plantations
4. Of Paper Trails and Dirt Eaters: West Indian Medical Knowledge in the Antebellum South

PART III  |  Disciplining Blackness: Hospitals
5. That the Asylum for Deserted Negroes Is Now Complete for Their Reception: Surveillance and Sickness in Jamaica
6. For the Acquisition of Practical Knowledge: Genealogies of Medical Exploitation in the South

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography ​
Index