Christopher D E Willoughby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1022084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher D E Willoughby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher D E |
| FAMILY NAME | Willoughby |
| SIGNATURE | WILLOUGHBY C D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic
Slavery and Its Afterlives in US Psychiatry
Antecedents of racist treatments of Black patients by the psychiatric profession in the United States affect the way they view treatment today. Specifically, in this essay, we explore the enduring consequences of racial science on various treatment practices. We examined a range of primary sources on the history of racial theories about the mind, medical and psychiatric publications, and hospitals. We contextualize this analysis by examining the …
A City Without Care
Journal Article A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities & Health Care Activism in New Orleans. Kevin McQueeney Get access A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities & Health Care Activism in New Orleans Kevin McQueeneyChapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 286 pp. Christopher D E Willoughby Christopher D E Willoughby University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA [email protected] Search …
Manuel Barcia, The Yellow Demon of Fever
Caring for Equality
In Caring for Equality David McBride provides a synthetic history of African Americans and their allies' pursuits of what McBride terms the “health equality ideal,” from the period of enslavement to the present. The “health equality ideal,” as McBride defines it, refers to the notion that African Americans' health “should be of an equal priority to that of whites and other Americans” (p. xi). Organized chronologically, Caring for Equality acts as…
Sari Altschuler. The Medical Imagination
In The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States, literary scholar and historian Sari Altschuler demands a reconsideration of the role of imaginative thinking in early American medical knowledge production. Rooted in an interrogation of the works of nineteenth-century literary doctors, Altschuler argues that, rather than “literature simply reflecting medical ideas of the period,” nineteenth-century physicians such as B…
A Harvard Physician's Reports on an 1857 Visit to the Saamaka
In 1857, Harvard professor and anatomist Jeffries Wyman traveled to Suriname to collect specimens for his museum at Harvard (later the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, founded in 1866 and curated by Wyman). Though his main interest concerned amphibians, he had a secondary interest in ethnology and, apparently, a desire to demonstrate current theories of racial "degeneration" among the African-descended population, particularly the "Bu…
Sasha Turner, Contested Bodies
In this richly researched monograph, Sasha Turner depicts Jamaica’s abolitionist era as a contest among abolitionists, enslavers, physicians and the enslaved to define and control black women’s bodies, their reproductive capacity in particular. Taking place between the early years of the movement to abolish the slave trade in the 1780s and concluding with the abolition of slavery on the island in 1834, Turner highlights how understandings of ensl…
His Native, Hot Country”1
Relying on a close reading of more than 4,000 medicals student theses, this essay explores the evolving medical approaches to race and environment in the early national and antebellum United States and highlights the role that medical school pedagogy played in disseminating and elaborating racial theory. Specifically, it considers the influence of racial science on medical concepts of the relationship of bodies to climates. At their core, monogen…
Melissa N. Stein, Measuring Manhood
In this exciting, new monograph, Melissa Stein adds to the growing number of scholars focused on the legacy of race in American science, and its importance to the history of American politics and culture.1 Drawing principally on print sources, Stein contends that since its inception American racial science received legitimacy through the reception of contemporary scientists and physicians. Moreover, as the nineteenth century progressed, notions o…
Caring for Equality
In Caring for Equality David McBride provides a synthetic history of African Americans and their allies' pursuits of what McBride terms the “health equality ideal,” from the period of enslavement to the present. The “health equality ideal,” as McBride defines it, refers to the notion that African Americans' health “should be of an equal priority to that of whites and other Americans” (p. xi). Organized chronologically, Caring for Equality acts as…
Melissa N. Stein, Measuring Manhood
In this exciting, new monograph, Melissa Stein adds to the growing number of scholars focused on the legacy of race in American science, and its importance to the history of American politics and culture.1 Drawing principally on print sources, Stein contends that since its inception American racial science received legitimacy through the reception of contemporary scientists and physicians. Moreover, as the nineteenth century progressed, notions o…
His Native, Hot Country”1
Relying on a close reading of more than 4,000 medicals student theses, this essay explores the evolving medical approaches to race and environment in the early national and antebellum United States and highlights the role that medical school pedagogy played in disseminating and elaborating racial theory. Specifically, it considers the influence of racial science on medical concepts of the relationship of bodies to climates. At their core, monogen…
Sasha Turner, Contested Bodies
In this richly researched monograph, Sasha Turner depicts Jamaica’s abolitionist era as a contest among abolitionists, enslavers, physicians and the enslaved to define and control black women’s bodies, their reproductive capacity in particular. Taking place between the early years of the movement to abolish the slave trade in the 1780s and concluding with the abolition of slavery on the island in 1834, Turner highlights how understandings of ensl…
Sari Altschuler. The Medical Imagination
In The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States, literary scholar and historian Sari Altschuler demands a reconsideration of the role of imaginative thinking in early American medical knowledge production. Rooted in an interrogation of the works of nineteenth-century literary doctors, Altschuler argues that, rather than “literature simply reflecting medical ideas of the period,” nineteenth-century physicians such as B…
A Harvard Physician's Reports on an 1857 Visit to the Saamaka
In 1857, Harvard professor and anatomist Jeffries Wyman traveled to Suriname to collect specimens for his museum at Harvard (later the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, founded in 1866 and curated by Wyman). Though his main interest concerned amphibians, he had a secondary interest in ethnology and, apparently, a desire to demonstrate current theories of racial "degeneration" among the African-descended population, particularly the "Bu…
Caring for Equality
In Caring for Equality David McBride provides a synthetic history of African Americans and their allies' pursuits of what McBride terms the “health equality ideal,” from the period of enslavement to the present. The “health equality ideal,” as McBride defines it, refers to the notion that African Americans' health “should be of an equal priority to that of whites and other Americans” (p. xi). Organized chronologically, Caring for Equality acts as…
Manuel Barcia, The Yellow Demon of Fever
Slavery and Its Afterlives in US Psychiatry
Antecedents of racist treatments of Black patients by the psychiatric profession in the United States affect the way they view treatment today. Specifically, in this essay, we explore the enduring consequences of racial science on various treatment practices. We examined a range of primary sources on the history of racial theories about the mind, medical and psychiatric publications, and hospitals. We contextualize this analysis by examining the …
A City Without Care
Journal Article A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities & Health Care Activism in New Orleans. Kevin McQueeney Get access A City Without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities & Health Care Activism in New Orleans Kevin McQueeneyChapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 286 pp. Christopher D E Willoughby Christopher D E Willoughby University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA [email protected] Search …
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History of Science and Medicine (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (3 works)