dysaesthesia การใช้

• Dysaesthesia is defined as pain due to thalamic lesioning.
• Allodynia and dysaesthesia replace numbness between one week and a few months after a thalamic stroke.
• In psychiatry, "'dysaesthesia aethiopica "'was an alleged mental illness described by slaves.
• Today, dysaesthesia aethiopica is considered an example of pseudoscience, and part of the edifice of scientific racism.
• Author Vanessa Jackson has noted that lesions were a symptom of dysaesthesia aethiopica and " the ever-resourceful Dr . Cartwright determined that whipping could . . . cure this disorder.
• Race was also used to justify the construction of socially specific mental disorders such as " drapetomania " and " dysaesthesia aethiopica "  the behavior of uncooperative African slaves.
• Cartwright also described another disorder, " " Dysaesthesia aethiopica " ", a disease " affecting both mind and body . " Cartwright used his theory to explain the apparent lack of work ethic among slaves.
• Dysaesthesia aethiopica, " called by overseers'rascality', " was characterized by partial insensitivity of the skin and " so great a hebetude of the intellectual faculties, as to be like a person half asleep . " Other symptoms included " lesions of the body discoverable to the medical observer, which are always present and sufficient to account for the symptoms ."
• According to Cartwright, dysaesthesia aethiopica was " much more prevalent among free negroes living in clusters by themselves, than among slaves on our plantations, and attacks only such slaves as live like free negroes in regard to diet, drinks, exercise, etc . "  indeed, according to Cartwright, " nearly all [ free negroes ] are more or less afflicted with it, that have not got some white person to direct and to take care of them ."
• According to Cartwright, dysaesthesia aethiopica was " much more prevalent among slaves on our plantations, and attacks only such slaves as live like free negroes in regard to diet, drinks, exercise, etc . "  indeed, according to Cartwright, " nearly all [ free negroes ] are more or less afflicted with it, that have not got some white person to direct and to take care of them . " He explicitly dismissed the opinion which assigned the causes of the " problematic " behaviour to the social situation of the slaves without further justifications : " [ The northern physicians ] ignorantly attribute the symptoms to the debasing influence of slavery on the mind ."