Liana Demarco
Biographic Data
| ID | 1206361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liana Demarco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liana |
| FAMILY NAME | Demarco |
| SIGNATURE | DEMARCO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | History of Science and History of Medicine, Yale University, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time, Productivity, and Race in Plantation Management and Medicine
By the mid-nineteenth century, plantation enslavers in Louisiana and Cuba had developed a new form of plantation management. Clock-time discipline, hierarchical divisions of labor, and the scientific authority of numbers, as filtered through accounting technologies like the plantation ledger, helped planters see enslaved people's health in seemingly precise terms of time, productivity, and race. In this cruelly meticulous system, some elite physi…
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
The Mark of Slavery
In The Mark of Slavery, Jenifer L. Barclay examines antebellum representations of Black people with disabilities, showing how they were used to defend slavery and challenge it. Barclay also sheds light on the everyday experiences of the estimated 10 percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities in the late antebellum period. Enslavers often labeled these people “unsound in body” and/or “unsound in mind.” Similar to the adjacent label old…
Sick Time
Capitalist ideas of productivity became central to medicine under slavery. They shaped how physicians treated enslaved patients, crafted a scientific basis for medicine, and conceived of themselves as professionals. Between the late-eighteenth-century and the mid-nineteenth-century, white male physicians in Louisiana and Cuba distinguished themselves from other healers: first, by aligning with Spanish colonialism, and then, by making themselves e…
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’
This article analyzes the values of older enslaved women on cotton and sugar plantations in the antebellum lower Mississippi Valley. Planters derived efficiency value from aged enslaved women’s medical knowledge, domestic skills, and care-taking skills, believing that these qualities could be used to create maximally productive workforces. This meaning that planters and overseers placed on some older women was a perversion of value these women of…
Paul Ramírez, Enlightened Immunity
As the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul Ramírez’s 2018 study of disease prevention and Enlightenment science in colonial Mexico feels all the more relevant. Enlightened Immunity is a welcome addition to the recent literature on the history of medicine and public health in colonial Latin America that includes works by Martha Few and Adam Warren. But even more than previous authors, Ramírez tells a story from the perspective of everyday…
Sick Time
Capitalist ideas of productivity became central to medicine under slavery. They shaped how physicians treated enslaved patients, crafted a scientific basis for medicine, and conceived of themselves as professionals. Between the late-eighteenth-century and the mid-nineteenth-century, white male physicians in Louisiana and Cuba distinguished themselves from other healers: first, by aligning with Spanish colonialism, and then, by making themselves e…
Paul Ramírez, Enlightened Immunity
As the world reels from the COVID-19 pandemic, Paul Ramírez’s 2018 study of disease prevention and Enlightenment science in colonial Mexico feels all the more relevant. Enlightened Immunity is a welcome addition to the recent literature on the history of medicine and public health in colonial Latin America that includes works by Martha Few and Adam Warren. But even more than previous authors, Ramírez tells a story from the perspective of everyday…
The Mark of Slavery
In The Mark of Slavery, Jenifer L. Barclay examines antebellum representations of Black people with disabilities, showing how they were used to defend slavery and challenge it. Barclay also sheds light on the everyday experiences of the estimated 10 percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities in the late antebellum period. Enslavers often labeled these people “unsound in body” and/or “unsound in mind.” Similar to the adjacent label old…
Sick Time
Capitalist ideas of productivity became central to medicine under slavery. They shaped how physicians treated enslaved patients, crafted a scientific basis for medicine, and conceived of themselves as professionals. Between the late-eighteenth-century and the mid-nineteenth-century, white male physicians in Louisiana and Cuba distinguished themselves from other healers: first, by aligning with Spanish colonialism, and then, by making themselves e…
Managing ‘Old Mammy’, Making ‘Mother Wit’
This article analyzes the values of older enslaved women on cotton and sugar plantations in the antebellum lower Mississippi Valley. Planters derived efficiency value from aged enslaved women’s medical knowledge, domestic skills, and care-taking skills, believing that these qualities could be used to create maximally productive workforces. This meaning that planters and overseers placed on some older women was a perversion of value these women of…
Time, Productivity, and Race in Plantation Management and Medicine
By the mid-nineteenth century, plantation enslavers in Louisiana and Cuba had developed a new form of plantation management. Clock-time discipline, hierarchical divisions of labor, and the scientific authority of numbers, as filtered through accounting technologies like the plantation ledger, helped planters see enslaved people's health in seemingly precise terms of time, productivity, and race. In this cruelly meticulous system, some elite physi…
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Business (2 works)