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Infectious fear : politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation /
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. examine...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. --from publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-298) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807894071 0807894079 9781469605890 1469605899 |