Infectious fear [electronic resource] : politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation / Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in social medicine.
Main Author: Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Series:Studies in social medicine.
Subjects:
Tuberculosis > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Diseases > History > 20th century.
Urban health > United States > History > 20th century.
Segregation > Health aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2009 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2009 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2009 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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.