BOOK: Weiner and Hough on Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

Marli F. Weiner and Mayzie Hough. Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Defining Illness in the Antebellum South. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2012. From the press website: Marli F. Weiner skillfully integrates the history of medicine with social and intellectual history in this study of how race and sex complicated medical treatment in the antebellum South. … Continue reading BOOK: Weiner and Hough on Sex, Sickness, and Slavery