Masters of health: racial science and slavery in U.S. medical schools

Abstract

Racial science and medical schools in early America -- The clinical-racial gaze -- Training on Black people's bodies -- Mastering anatomy -- Skull collecting, medical museums, and the international dimensions of racial science -- Jeffries Wyman, travel, and the rise of a racial anatomist -- Race, empire, and environmental medicine -- The afterlives of slavery and racial science in U.S. medical education.