Infectious Fear | Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

Samuel Kelton Jr. Roberts

ISBN 10: 0807859346 / ISBN 13: 9780807859346

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Infectious Fear | Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation | Samuel Kelton Jr. Roberts | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2009 | The University of North Carolina Press | EAN 9780807859346 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 101673344

Inhaltsangabe:

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease--as its victims or as family and neighbors--made the daily adjustments required by the devastating effects of the "white plague". Exploring the politics of race, reform, and public health, Infectious Fear uses the tuberculosis crisis to illuminate the limits of racialized medicine and the roots of modern health disparities. Ultimately, it reveals a disturbing picture of the United States' health history while offering a vision of a more democratic future.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: SAMUEL KELTON ROBERTS JR. is associate professor of history at Columbia University and assistant professor of sociomedical sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Infectious Fear | Politics, Disease, and the...
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Taschenbuch
Zustand: Neu