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Precarious prescriptions

Precarious prescriptions contested histories of race and health in North America / [electronic resource] : Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-Gonzolez, and Martin Summers, editors. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Curing the nation with cacti : native healing and state building before the Texas revolution / Mark Allan Goldberg -- We were promised medicines : health and illness around the Salish Sea, 1853/1878 / Jennifer Seltz -- I studied and practiced medicine without molestation : African American doctors in the first years of freedom / Gretchen Long -- At the nation's edge : African American migrants and smallpox in the Mexican-American borderlands / John Mckiernan-Gonzolez -- Diagnosing the ailments of black citizenship : African American physicians and the dilemma of mental illness, 1895/1940 / Martin Summers -- An indispensable service : midwives and medical officials after new Mexico statehood / Lena Mcquade-Salzfass -- Professionalizing "local girls" : nursing and U.S. colonial rule in Hawai'i, 1920/1948 / Jean J. Kim -- Borders, laborers, and racialized medicalization : Mexican immigration and U.S. public health practices in the twentieth century / Natalia Molina -- A transformation for migrants : Mexican farmworkers and federal health reform during the New Deal era / Veronica Martonez-Matsuda -- "Hunger in America" and the power of television : poor people, physicians, and the mass media in the war against poverty / Laurie B. Green -- Making crack babies : race discourse and the biologization of behavior / Jason E. Glenn -- Suffering and resistance, voice and agency : thoughts on history and the "Tuskegee" syphilis study / Susan M. Reverby.

9781452941622 1452941629


Discrimination in medical care--North America.
Mexicans--Health and hygiene--United States.
Hispanic Americans--Health and hygiene.
African Americans--Health and hygiene.


Electronic books.

RA448.5.N4 / P74 2014

362.1089/96073