Infectious fear : politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation / Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Samuel, 1973-

Series:

Studies in social medicine.

Studies in social medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis--United States--History--20th century.

Tuberculosis.

African Americans--Diseases--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Urban health--United States--History--20th century.

Urban health.

Segregation--Health aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Segregation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted ""racial hygiene"" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-298) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-234-2

979-88-908806-6-6

1-4696-0589-9

0-8078-9407-9

OCLC:

435671248