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

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Hovedforfatter: Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Institution som forfatter: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Serier:Studies in social medicine.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 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.