Infectious fear
Subtitle: politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation
By: Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr.
Series: Studies in social medicine
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780807832592; 9780807859346
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; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- epidemiology -- United States; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history -- United States; African Americans -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Prejudice -- United States; Public Health -- history -- United States; Urban Health -- history -- United States
Description: 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. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : disease histories and race histories; title: Toward a historical epidemiology of African American tuberculosis; title: The rise of the city and the decline of the negro : the historical idea of black tuberculosis and the politics of color and class; title: Urban underdevelopment, politics, and the landscape of health; title: Establishing boundaries : politics, science, and stigma in the early antituberculosis movement; title: Locating African Americans and finding the "lung block"; title: The web of surveillance and the emerging politics of public health in Baltimore; title: The road to Henryton and the ends of progressivism; title: Conclusion : unequal burdens : public health at the intersection of segregation and housing politics.