Infectious fear politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Subjects:
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : disease histories and race histories
  • Toward a historical epidemiology of African American tuberculosis
  • The rise of the city and the decline of the Negro : the historical idea of Black tuberculosis and the politics of color and class
  • Urban underdevelopment, politics, and the landscape of health
  • Establishing boundaries : politics, science, and stigma in the early antituberculosis movement
  • Locating African Americans and finding the "lung block"
  • The web of surveillance and the emerging politics of public health in Baltimore
  • The road to Henryton and the ends of progressivism
  • Conclusion : unequal burdens : public health at the intersection of segregation and housing politics.