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

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mckiernan-González, John Raymond
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Communicable diseases > Transmission > Mexican-American Border Region > Prevention > History.
Public health > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Cross-cultural studies.
Communicable Disease Control > history
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Public Health > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Santé publique > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Histoire.
Études transculturelles.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Cross-cultural studies
Communicable diseases > Transmission > Prevention
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects
Public health
Gesundheitspolitik
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Texas
Mexico
Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Histoire.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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