Infectious fear politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation /

Main Author: Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Series:Studies in social medicine
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10313961
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300 |a xiii, 313 p. :  |b ill., maps. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-298) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Urban health  |x History  |y 20th century.  |z United States 
650 0 |a Segregation  |x Health aspects  |y 20th century.  |z United States  |x History 
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