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

• Autore: Green Laurie B
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.108996073
• Soggetto topico: 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; Minority Health - history; African Americans - history; Mexican Americans - history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Public Health; Health & Biological Sciences; Ethnic Minorities & Public Health
• Soggetto geografico: United States; Mexico
• Altri autori: Mckiernan-GonzálezJohn SummersMartin Anthony
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Precarious Prescriptions
• ISBN: 1-4529-4162-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813388203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II