Capturing Racial Pathology: American Medical Photography in the Era of Jim Crow.

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  • Author(s): Kenny SC;Kenny SC
  • Source:
    American journal of public health [Am J Public Health] 2020 Jan; Vol. 110 (1), pp. 75-83. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 14.
  • Publication Type:
    Historical Article; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: American Public Health Association Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1254074 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1541-0048 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 00900036 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Am J Public Health Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: Washington, DC : American Public Health Association
      Original Publication: New York [etc.]
    • Subject Terms:
      History of Medicine*; Black or African American/*history ; Photography/*history; History, 19th Century ; Humans ; New Orleans ; United States
    • Abstract:
      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 .
    • Comments:
      Comment in: Am J Public Health. 2020 Jan;110(1):16-18. (PMID: 31800290)
    • References:
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    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20191115 Date Completed: 20200427 Latest Revision: 20231020
    • Publication Date:
      20240105
    • Accession Number:
      PMC6893349
    • Accession Number:
      10.2105/AJPH.2019.305357
    • Accession Number:
      31725325