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.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.