Leslie A. Schwalm is emerita professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her previous books include Emancipation's Diaspora: Race and Reconstruction in the Upper Midwest.
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"Leslie A. Schwalm has put her impressive skills to work. . . . While this story of commodifying Black people's bodies in the name of medicine may be familiar to specialists working in the history of race and medicine, it remains an instructive story that needs to be shared among scholars with broad interests in the Civil War, race, and the history of African American experiences in wartime."--Journal of Southern History "An imaginatively researched, provocatively argued, and exceedingly readable book."--Journal of American History "An important contribution to both the history of medicine and science and to critical studies of race and racism."-Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies "Leslie A. Schwalm has written an important book that explores the ways white Northerners used medicine, anatomy, and race to ensure the subordination of black Americans following the Civil War."--H-Sci-Med-Tech "This deeply researched, engaging, and sensitively written book will surely appeal to anyone interested in the history of slavery, the Civil War, medicine, biopolitics and the state, and collecting and exhibiting. Schwalm draws from an impressive array of sources, including diaries, medical print culture, autopsy reports, social surveys, court-martial records, pension applications, as well as a number of visual sources, to craft a compelling narrative."-North Carolina Historical Review