Infectious fear : politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation / / Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.
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| Superior document: | Studies in social medicine |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in social medicine.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 313 p. :; ill., maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : disease histories and race histories
- Toward a historical epidemiology of African American tuberculosis
- The rise of the city and the decline of the Negro : the historical idea of Black tuberculosis and the politics of color and class
- Urban underdevelopment, politics, and the landscape of health
- Establishing boundaries : politics, science, and stigma in the early antituberculosis movement
- Locating African Americans and finding the "lung block"
- The web of surveillance and the emerging politics of public health in Baltimore
- The road to Henryton and the ends of progressivism
- Conclusion : unequal burdens : public health at the intersection of segregation and housing politics.