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Author Roberts, Samuel, 1973-

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

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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Description xiii, 313 p. : ill., maps.
Series Studies in social medicine
Studies in social medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-298) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780807832592 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859346 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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