Schwalm, Leslie A.  1956- <br/><br/>
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America /  
Leslie A. Schwalm. 
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<br/><br/>Militarizing race -- Commissioning race -- Narrating and enumerating race -- Anatomizing race -- The afterlife of race. 
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<br/><br/> "Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469672717 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States Sanitary Commission.<br/>United States Sanitary Commission--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientific racism.<br/>Racism in medicine.<br/>Medical care.<br/>African Americans.<br/>Scientific racism--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Racism in medicine--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.<br/>United States--History--African Americans.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States--History--Medical care.--Civil War, 1861-1865
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.<br/>Electronic books.