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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464887103321

Autore

Green Laurie B

Titolo

Precarious Prescriptions [[electronic resource] ] : Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4162-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Mckiernan-GonzálezJohn

SummersMartin Anthony

Disciplina

362.108996073

Soggetti

African Americans -- Health and hygiene

Discrimination in medical care -- North America

Hispanic Americans -- Health and hygiene

Mexicans -- Health and hygiene -- United States

African Americans - Health and hygiene - United States

Hispanic Americans - Health and hygiene - North America

Mexicans - Health and hygiene

Discrimination in medical care

African Continental Ancestry Group

Hispanic Americans

History, Modern 1601-

Health

Ethnic Groups

Population Groups

Population Characteristics

History

Continental Population Groups

Persons

Health Care

Humanities

Named Groups

African Americans

History, 20th Century

History, 19th Century

Minority Health

Mexican Americans

Public Health

Health & Biological Sciences

Ethnic Minorities & Public Health



Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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