>[!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): —