>[!abstract]
>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, and part of the edifice of scientific racism (Wikipedia, 2025).
>[!related]
>- **North** (upstream): [[Scientific racism]]
>- **West** (similar): [[Drapetomania]]
>- **East** (different): —
>- **South** (downstream): —