05024nam 22008893u 450 991078641960332120230803202625.01-4529-4162-9(CKB)3710000000117192(EBL)1693978(SSID)ssj0001225171(PQKBManifestationID)11737765(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001225171(PQKBWorkID)11264541(PQKB)10483473(MiAaPQ)EBC1693978(EXLCZ)99371000000011719220140602d2014|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrPrecarious Prescriptions[electronic resource] Contested Histories of Race and Health in North AmericaMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20141 online resource (325 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-9047-2 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 Borderlands5. 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 Era10. "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; YIn 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, medAfrican Americans -- Health and hygieneDiscrimination in medical care -- North AmericaHispanic Americans -- Health and hygieneMexicans -- Health and hygiene -- United StatesAfrican AmericansHealth and hygieneUnited StatesHispanic AmericansHealth and hygieneNorth AmericaMexicansHealth and hygieneDiscrimination in medical careMinority HealthhistoryAfrican AmericanshistoryMexican AmericanshistoryHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyPublic HealthHILCCHealth & Biological SciencesHILCCEthnic Minorities & Public HealthHILCCUnited StatesMexicoAfrican Americans -- Health and hygiene.Discrimination in medical care -- North America.Hispanic Americans -- Health and hygiene.Mexicans -- Health and hygiene -- United States.African AmericansHealth and hygieneHispanic AmericansHealth and hygieneMexicansHealth and hygieneDiscrimination in medical careMinority Healthhistory.African Americanshistory.Mexican Americanshistory.History, 19th Century.History, 20th Century.Public HealthHealth & Biological SciencesEthnic Minorities & Public Health362.108996073Green Laurie B1028060Mckiernan-González John1524804Summers Martin Anthony1465223AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910786419603321Precarious Prescriptions3765833UNINA