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EAN : 9782348045011
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 354
Size : 135 x 220 mm
BLACK BODIES AND WHITE DOCTORS

Collection : Sciences humaines
Release date : 06/05/2021
We often overlook the fact that medical literature from the late 19th to the mid-20th century elevated racial prejudices about black bodies to the rank of scientific truth: intellectual inferiority, physical endurance, the predominance of emotions, and even hypersexuality.

This book by Delphine Peiretti-Courtis is an in-depth investigation of the ways...
We often overlook the fact that medical literature from the late 19th to the mid-20th century elevated racial prejudices about black bodies to the rank of scientific truth: intellectual inferiority, physical endurance, the predominance of emotions, and even hypersexuality.

This book by Delphine Peiretti-Courtis is an in-depth investigation of the ways this issue was handled in specialized French writings from that time.

It helps us understand how prejudices passed into seemingly indisputable scientific fact, sturdily entrenched in the mind even after being completely invalidated.
 
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EAN : 9782348045011
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 354
Size : 135 x 220 mm
La Découverte