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 Übersetzung für 'drapetomania' von Englisch nach Deutsch
NOUN   drapetomania | -
hist.psych.spec.
drapetomania [supposed mental illness among slaves]
Drapetomanie {f} [sog. krankhafter Wandertrieb der Sklaven]
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • Considered today to be abuse based on pseudo-science, two alleged mental illnesses of negros were described in scientific literature: drapetomania, the mental illness that made slaves desire to run away, and dysaesthesia aethiopica, laziness or "rascality".
  • The most sensationalistic portions of it, on drapetomania and dysaesthesia aethiopica, were reprinted in "DeBow's Review".
  • Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A.
  • It published Samuel Cartwright's pseudoscientific theories of race and disease, including the first treatment of the conjectural disease drapetomania.
  • Samuel Cartwright, a prominent Louisiana physician and one of the leading authorities in his time on the medical care of people referred to as "negroes", identified two mental disorders peculiar to slaves: Drapetomania, or the disease causing slaves to run away; Dysaethesia Aethiopica which proposed a theory for the cause of laziness among slaves.

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