Fevered measures
Subtitle: public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848-1942
By: John Mckiernan-González
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822352570; 9780822352761
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Transmission; Public health; History; Prevention; Communicable diseases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From the Texas-Mexico border to the Mexican-Texas epidemic, 1848-1882; title: The promise of progress : quarantines and the fusion of race and nation; title: The appearance of progress : Black labor, smallpox, and the body politics of transnational American citizenship, 1895; title: The power of progress : 1898, Laredo and the limits of quarantine, 1899-1903; title: Domestic tensions at an American crossroads : bordering on gender, labor, and typhus control, 1910-1920; title: Bodies of evidence : vaccination and the body politics of transnational Mexican citizenship, 1910-1920; title: Border quarantine and the Texas-Mexico border : race, citizenship, and national identity, 1920-1940.