The National Story of Racial Science and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America

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1 Michel Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (1963; New York: Vintage, 1994), 164.

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Carolyn Eastman

Carolyn Eastman is a Professor in the Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University, 811 South Cathedral Place, P. O. Box 842001, Richmond, Virginia, 23284-2001, USA. Email: [email protected]