Capturing Racial Pathology
American Medical Photography in the Era of Jim Crow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11035574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Kenny (0000-0002-2719-1236, University of Liverpool, corresponding author), Stephen C Kenny (Stephen C. Kenny is with the Department of History, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-83 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2019.305357 |
| PMID | 31725325 |
| OpenAlex | W2987331870 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article focuses on the untapped, complicated, fragile, and fluid visual archives of the elite White surgeon Rudolph Matas, a large proportion of which was produced during the late 19th and early 20th century, a time when he was a resident at New Orleans’ Charity Hospital in Louisiana and a professor of general and clinical surgery at Tulane University’s Medical Department. The article’s main aim is to understand the role of visual materials in the production, uses, circulation, and impact of a form of knowledge that Matas termed “racial pathology.” A small but representative sample of visual materials from the Matas collection are placed in context and examined in order to make known this untold chapter from the life story of “one of the great pioneers” in American surgery. The article reveals that many of the photographs were most significant in having been produced and assembled in parallel with the making, publication, dissemination, reception, and use of Matas’ racialized medical research, in particular his influential 1896 pamphlet, The Surgical Peculiarities of the American Negro
Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Elite · Medical education · Medical school · Political science · Politics · Visual arts · White (mutation) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · History of Medical Practice · Law · Medical History and Innovations · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |