Infectious fear [electronic resource] : politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation / Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.
Series: Studies in social medicinePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 313 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 362.196/995 22
- RA644.T7 R585 2009eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-298) and index.
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.
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