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Precarious prescriptions : contested histories of race and health in North America / Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Health and hygiene.
- African Americans.
- Hispanic Americans--Health and hygiene.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Mexicans--Health and hygiene--United States.
- Mexicans.
- Discrimination in medical care--North America.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Minority Health--history.
- Black or African American--history.
- Mexican Americans--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Mexicans--Health and hygiene.
- United States.
- Mexico.
- North America.
- Medical Subjects:
- Minority Health--history.
- Black or African American--history.
- Mexican Americans--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- United States.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 296 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves a complicated history to show how health and medicine have defined the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Curing the nation with cacti : native healing and state building before the Texas revolution / Mark Allan Goldberg
- We were promised medicines : health and illness around the Salish Sea, 1853/1878 / Jennifer Seltz
- I studied and practiced medicine without molestation : African American doctors in the first years of freedom / Gretchen Long
- At the nation's edge : African American migrants and smallpox in the Mexican-American borderlands / John Mckiernan-González
- Diagnosing the ailments of black citizenship : African American physicians and the dilemma of mental illness, 1895/1940 / Martin Summers
- An indispensable service : midwives and medical officials after new Mexico statehood / Lena Mcquade-Salzfass
- Professionalizing "local girls" : nursing and U.S. colonial rule in Hawai'i, 1920/1948 / Jean J. Kim
- Borders, laborers, and racialized medicalization : Mexican immigration and U.S. public health practices in the twentieth century / Natalia Molina
- A transformation for migrants : Mexican farmworkers and federal health reform during the New Deal era / Verónica Martínez-Matsuda
- "Hunger in America" and the power of television : poor people, physicians, and the mass media in the war against poverty / Laurie B. Green
- Making crack babies : race discourse and the biologization of behavior / Jason E. Glenn
- Suffering and resistance, voice and agency : thoughts on history and the Tuskegee syphilis study / Susan M. Reverby.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781452941622
- 1452941629
- Publisher Number:
- 99969176002
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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