Precarious Prescriptions
Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
Will be published approx. on 21. March 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8166-9047-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-GonzAlez, 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; VerOnica MartInez-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.
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; VerOnica MartInez-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.
Reviews / Votes
"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 PsychosisMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
15
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-9047-3 (9780816690473)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Laurie B. Green is associate professor of history at University of Texas at Austin.
John Mckiernan-GonzAlez is assistant professor of history at Texas State University.
Martin Summers is associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College.
John Mckiernan-GonzAlez is assistant professor of history at Texas State University.
Martin Summers is associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College.
Content
Contents
IntroductionLaurie Green, John Mckiernan-GonzAlez, 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-GonzAlez5. 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 EraVerOnica MartInez-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
IntroductionLaurie Green, John Mckiernan-GonzAlez, 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-GonzAlez5. 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 EraVerOnica MartInez-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