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Slavery and the Journal
Founded by men whose families profited from slavery, the Journal provided a prominent forum where physicians perpetuated race hierarchies before and after the Civil War.
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; Podolsky, Scott H; Meghan Bannon Kerr; Hammonds, Evelynn 1 1 From the Departments of the History of Science (D.S.J., E.H.) and of African and African American Studies (E.H.), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (D.S.J., S.H.P.) and the Center for the History of Medicine (S.H.P., M.B.K.), Harvard Medical School, Boston — both in Massachusetts.





