Infectious Fear : Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Segregation > Soziologie
Tuberkulosebekämpfung
Urban health.
Tuberculosis.
African Americans > Diseases.
Prejudices.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Prejuges.
Sante urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Tuberculose > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African Americans > history
History, 20th Century
Prejudice
Public Health > history
Urban Health > history
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > epidemiology
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history
Segregation > Health aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Urban health > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Diseases > History > 20th century.
Tuberculosis > United States > History > 20th century.
USA.
Schwarze.
USA
Schwärze
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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