Deanna Gross Scherger
Biographic Data
| ID | 7527715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deanna Gross Scherger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deanna Gross |
| FAMILY NAME | Scherger |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERGER D G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Backwards Medicine
This article examines atavism as a theory of racial science in the nineteenth-century United States that illuminates how the developing medical profession reinforced racial, class, and gender hierarchies to gain cultural authority. I use John S. Partridge's "The Pineal Eye," a little-known short story published in San Francisco's The Wave in 1894, as a case study that reveals how atavism was conceived as pathology within the purview of medical st…
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Backwards Medicine
This article examines atavism as a theory of racial science in the nineteenth-century United States that illuminates how the developing medical profession reinforced racial, class, and gender hierarchies to gain cultural authority. I use John S. Partridge's "The Pineal Eye," a little-known short story published in San Francisco's The Wave in 1894, as a case study that reveals how atavism was conceived as pathology within the purview of medical st…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Cognitive science (1 work) · Gender Studies (1 work) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (1 work) · History (1 work) · History of Science and Natural History (1 work) · Medical History and Research (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Scientific discovery (1 work)