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- Title
Controlling Healthy Populations: Medicine, Biopolitics, and Racial Politics in Spanish New Orleans, 1763-1803.
- Authors
DEMARCO, LIANA
- Abstract
The article focuses on medicine, biopolitics, and racial politics in New Orleans, Louisiana during the Spanish period in the late 18th century. Topics include ideas that defined medicine and public health in New Orleans, reason for employing people of African descent in New Orleans hospitals, and legal cases which suggest what made West African medical cultures legitimate to a variety of observers.
- Subjects
NEW Orleans (La.); 18TH century medical history; PUBLIC health; HISTORY of medicine; RACE &; politics; BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology); AFRICANS
- Publication
Journal of Southern History, 2022, Vol 88, Issue 3, p447
- ISSN
0022-4642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/soh.2022.0058