Fevered measures : public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848-1942 / John Mckiernan-González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mckiernan-González, John Raymond.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--Transmission--Mexican-American Border Region--Prevention--History.

Communicable diseases.

Public health--Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Public health.

Emigration and immigration--Health aspects--Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Mexican-American Border Region--History.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease.

Contents:

From the Texas-Mexico border to the Mexican-Texas epidemic, 1848-1882

The promise of progress : quarantines and the fusion of race and nation

The appearance of progress : Black labor, smallpox, and the body politics of transnational American citizenship, 1895

The power of progress : 1898, Laredo and the limits of quarantine, 1899-1903

Domestic tensions at an American crossroads : bordering on gender, labor, and typhus control, 1910-1920

Bodies of evidence : vaccination and the body politics of transnational Mexican citizenship, 1910-1920

Border quarantine and the Texas-Mexico border : race, citizenship, and national identity, 1920-1940.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613896247

9781283583794

1283583798

9780822395416

082239541X

OCLC:

809643521