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.
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