Precarious prescriptions : contested histories of race and health in North America

Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth), (editor.). Mckiernan-González, John Raymond, (editor.). Summers, Martin Anthony, (editor.).

Summary: This work explores the complex relations between the institutions and ideologies of health and people of color in America. It brings 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, medicine, and public health, the book helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. -- From publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 0816690472
ISBN: 9780816690473
Physical Description: xxviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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-González -- 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 / Verónica Martínez-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.