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By Waltraud Ernst, Bernard Harris
Contemplating circumstances from Europe to India, this assortment brings jointly present severe learn into the position performed via racial matters within the creation of scientific wisdom. Confronting such arguable subject matters as colonialism and medication, the origins of racial pondering and overall healthiness and migration, the prestigious participants research the function performed through medication within the development of racial different types.
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Introduction 19 was due to a genetic specificity subsequently referred to as ‘congenital acromicria’ or ‘trisomy 21 anomaly’. Despite substantial variations in appearance, organic pathology and intelligence, this group of people was still regarded as different and deviant from the norm – now by virtue of their shared genetic constitution. Jackson concludes that ‘novel understandings and depictions of disease failed to shake off racial assumptions evident in earlier representations, although those assumptions were now recast in the language of genotypes’ (p.
This manual, The Navy-Surgeon,8 is of great interest as one of the few eighteenth-century medical texts with both a clearly identifiable and formulated conception of race, and a series of ideas about disease shaped by the built-in conception of race. Atkins’ view of race is a recognisable part of the polygenist tradition. Eighteenth-century polygenists are relatively little studied and John Atkins is no exception. 10 What I do claim for John Atkins, however, is that the ideas contained in the relevant section of his surgical manual are an exemplification of a much wider cultural shift in European attitudes to race, beginning in the mid-seventeenth century.
Their Indolence is such, (when shipped on Board for Slaves,) as to be entirely dispassionate at parting with Wives, Children, Friends, and Country, and are scarcely touched with any other Sense or Appetite, than that of Hunger; and even in this, for want of Custom or Instinct, they cannot distinguish proper Food, ... voraciously eating, though Victuals be never so dirtily cook’d; and whether the Flesh be raw or dressed, whether the Guts or a Sirloin. By their Sloth and Idleness the Blood becomes more depauperated; and those recrementitious Humours bred from it ...