Title: Infectious fear
First published: 2009
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
Subjects: African Americans, Diseases, Epidemiology, Health aspects, Health aspects of Segregation, History, History, 20th Century, Prejudice, Public health, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Segregation, Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary, Urban health, Tuberculosis, history, African americans, history, History, modern, 20th century, Prejudices, Public health, history, Black or African American, Tuberkulosebekämpfung, Segregation <Soziologie>
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: RA644.T7 R585 2009