Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (Studies in Social Medicine) Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-05-01
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0807859346
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions—black and white, public and private—responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease—as its victims or as family and neighbors—made the daily adjustments required by t Download Infectious Fear for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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