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Book Title
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health
ISBN
9780816690473
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Publication Name
Precarious Prescriptions : Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, Disease & Health Issues, United States / General
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
John Mckiernan-González
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Item Width
5.6 in
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816690472
ISBN-13
9780816690473
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175843101

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
320 Pages
Publication Name
Precarious Prescriptions : Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, Disease & Health Issues, United States / General
Type
Textbook
Author
John Mckiernan-González
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.6 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-028409
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" Precarious Prescriptions forges vital new terrain in the study of race, medicine, and public health in the U.S. and its borderlands. The book's carefully crafted essays explore the relationships between medicine, health, and lived experience in such diverse locales and settings as Hawai'i, pre-revolutionary Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, and the Salish Sea. By so doing Precarious Prescriptions expands our understandings, not just of medicalized 'race' and 'racisms,' but of medicine itself, in all of its colonizing and liberatory implications. This is vital reading indeed." --Jonathan M. Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis, " Precarious Prescriptions forges vital new terrain in the study of race, medicine, and public health in the U.S. and its borderlands. The book's carefully crafted essays explore the relationships between medicine, health, and lived experience in such diverse locales and settings as Hawai'i, pre-revolutionary Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, and the Salish Sea. By so doing Precarious Prescriptions expands our understandings, not just of medicalized 'race' and 'racisms,' but of medicine itself, in all of its colonizing and liberatory implications. This is vital reading indeed." --Jonathan M. Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction Laurie Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers 1. Curing the Nation with Cacti: Native Healing and State Building before the Texas RevolutionMark Allan Goldberg2. "We Were Promised Medicines": Health and Illness around the Salish Sea, 1853-1878Jennifer Seltz3. "I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation": African American Doctors in the First Years of FreedomGretchen Long4. At the Nation's Edge: African American Migrants and Smallpox in the Mexican-American BorderlandsJohn Mckiernan-González5. Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Dilemma of Mental Illness, 1895-1940Martin Summers6. "An Indispensable Service": Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico StatehoodLena McQuade-Salzfass7. Professionalizing "Local Girls": Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai'i, 1920-1948Jean J. Kim8. Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth CenturyNatalia Molina9. "A Transformation for Migrants": Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform During the New Deal EraVerónica Martínez-Matsuda10. "Hunger in America" and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against PovertyLaurie B. Green11. Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of BehaviorJason E. Glenn12. Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the "Tuskegee" Syphilis StudySusan M. Reverby ContributorsIndex
Synopsis
Precarious Prescriptions brings together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America., In Precarious Prescriptions , Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. Contributors: Jason E. Glenn, U of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Mark Allan Goldberg, U of Houston; Jean J. Kim; Gretchen Long, Williams College; Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Cornell U; Lena McQuade-Salzfass, Sonoma State U; Natalia Molina, U of California, San Diego; Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College; Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington U., In Precarious Prescriptions , Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-Gonz lez, and Martin Summers bring together essays that place race, citizenship, and gender at the center of questions about health and disease. Exploring the interplay between disease as a biological phenomenon, illness as a subjective experience, and race as an ideological construct, this volume weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. Contributors: Jason E. Glenn, U of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Mark Allan Goldberg, U of Houston; Jean J. Kim; Gretchen Long, Williams College; Ver nica Mart nez-Matsuda, Cornell U; Lena McQuade-Salzfass, Sonoma State U; Natalia Molina, U of California, San Diego; Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College; Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington U.
LC Classification Number
RA448.5.N4P74 2014

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