Precarious Prescriptions : Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America


Laurie B. Green
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
Utgitt
Minneapolis : : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014.
Omfang
1 online resource (325 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Introduction: Making Race, Making Health; 1. Curing the Nation with Cacti: Native Healing and State Building before the Texas Revolution; 2. Complicating Colonial Narratives: Medical Encounters around the Salish Sea, 1853-1878; 3. "I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation": African American Doctors in the First Years of Freedom; 4. At the Nation's Edge: African American Migrants and Smallpox in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Mexican- American Borderlands. - 10. "Hunger in America" and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty11. Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of Behavior; 12. Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. - 5. Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Politics of Mental Illness, 1895-19406. "An Indispensable Service": Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico Statehood; 7. Professionalizing "Local Girls": Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai'i, 1920-1948; 8. Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century; 9. "A Transformation for Migrants": Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform during the New Deal Era. - In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, med
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