Taking the (southern) waters
Science, slavery, and nationalism at the Virginia springs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2171222 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lauren E Lafauci (Simpson College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-22 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13648470.2010.525874 |
| PMID | 21563000 |
| OpenAlex | W1976637726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Taking the (southern) waters' argues that, in the pre-Civil War period, the space of Virginia's mineral water resorts and the philosophy of southern hydropathic medicine enabled--indeed, fostered--white southerners' constructions of a 'nationalist,' pro-slavery ideology. In the first half of the paper, the author explains how white southern health-seekers came to view the springs region as a medicinal resource peculiarly designed for the healing of southern diseases and for the restoration of white southern constitutions; in the second half, she shows how physical and social aspects of the resorts, such as architectural choices and political events, supported and encouraged pro-slavery ideologies. Taken together, these medical-social analyses reveal how elite white southerners in the antebellum period came to associate the health of their peculiarly 'southern' bodies with the future health of an independent southern nation, one that elided black bodily presence at the same time that its social structures and scientific apparatuses relied upon enslaved black labor
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| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2011 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |