Fevered Measures : Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848-1942 /

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. The medical borders created by these of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mckiernan-González, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2012]
Temas:
Communicable diseases > Transmission > Mexican-American Border Region > Prevention > History.
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Public health > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
HISTORY / United States / General.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Notes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases
  • Map
  • Introduction
  • One. From the U.S.-Mexican War to the Mexican-Texas Epidemic: Fevers, Race, and the Making of a Medical Border
  • Two. The Promise of Progress: Quarantines and the Medical Fusion of Race and Nation, 1890-1895
  • Three. The Appearance of Progress: Black Labor, Smallpox, and the Body Politics of Transnational American Citizenship, 1895
  • Four. The Power of Progress: Laredo and the Limits of Federal Quarantines, 1898-1903
  • Five. Domestic Tensions at an American Crossroads: Bordering on Gender, Labor, and Typhus Control, 1910-1920
  • Six. Bodies of Evidence: Vaccination and the Body Politics of Transnational Mexican Citizenship, 1910-1920
  • Seven. Between Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Border: Race, Citizenship, and National Identities, 1920-1942
  • Epilogue: Moving between the Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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