Infectious fear
Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Infectious fear politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation / [electronic resource] : Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xiii, 313 p. : ill., maps. - Studies in social medicine . - Studies in social medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-298) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
DNLM
Tuberculosis--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans--Diseases--History--20th century.
Urban health--History--United States--20th century.
Segregation--Health aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
RA644.T7 / R585 2009eb
362.196/995
Infectious fear politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation / [electronic resource] : Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xiii, 313 p. : ill., maps. - Studies in social medicine . - Studies in social medicine. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-298) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
DNLM
Tuberculosis--History--United States--20th century.
African Americans--Diseases--History--20th century.
Urban health--History--United States--20th century.
Segregation--Health aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
RA644.T7 / R585 2009eb
362.196/995