Precarious prescriptions contested histories of race and health in North America / Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers, editors.

Other author Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth)
Other author Mckiernan-González, John Raymond.
Other author Summers, Martin Anthony.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Descriptionxxviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Contents Curing the nation with cacti : native healing and state building before the Texas revolution / Mark Allan Goldberg -- We were promised medicines : health and illness around the Salish Sea, 1853/1878 / Jennifer Seltz -- I studied and practiced medicine without molestation : African American doctors in the first years of freedom / Gretchen Long -- At the nation's edge : African American migrants and smallpox in the Mexican-American borderlands / John Mckiernan-Gonzølez -- Diagnosing the ailments of black citizenship : African American physicians and the dilemma of mental illness, 1895/1940 / Martin Summers -- An indispensable service : midwives and medical officials after new Mexico statehood / Lena Mcquade-Salzfass -- Professionalizing "local girls" : nursing and U.S. colonial rule in Hawai'i, 1920/1948 / Jean J. Kim -- Borders, laborers, and racialized medicalization : Mexican immigration and U.S. public health practices in the twentieth century / Natalia Molina -- A transformation for migrants : Mexican farmworkers and federal health reform during the New Deal era / Verønica Martønez-Matsuda -- "Hunger in America" and the power of television : poor people, physicians, and the mass media in the war against poverty / Laurie B. Green -- Making crack babies : race discourse and the biologization of behavior / Jason E. Glenn -- Suffering and resistance, voice and agency : thoughts on history and the "Tuskegee" syphilis study / Susan M. Reverby.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013028409
ISBN9780816690466 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816690473 (pb : alk. paper)

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