Dysaesthesia aethiopica
Alleged mental illness linked to scientific racism / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In psychiatry, dysaesthesia aethiopica (literally "Ethiopian bad feeling" , "black bad feeling") was an alleged mental illness described by American physician Samuel A. Cartwright in 1851, which proposed a theory for the cause of laziness among slaves. Today, dysaesthesia aethiopica is not recognized as a disease, but instead considered an example of pseudoscience,[1] and part of the edifice of scientific racism.[2]