Infectious Fear Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation

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. examine...

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Main Author:	Roberts, Samuel Kelton
Format:	eBook Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2009 University of North Carolina Press
Edition:	1
Series:	Studies in Social Medicine
Subjects:	20th century African American Studies African Americans African Americans > Diseases > History > 20th century African Americans > history > United States Diseases epidemiology Ethnic Studies Health aspects Health Sciences History History, 20th Century History, 20th Century > United States MEDICAL Prejudice Prejudice > United States Public Health Public Health > history > United States Segregation Segregation > Health aspects > United States > History > 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology Tuberculosis Tuberculosis > United States > History > 20th century Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > epidemiology > United States Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history > United States U.S.A United States Urban health Urban Health > history > United States Urban health > United States > History > 20th century Urban society
ISBN:	0807859346, 9780807859346, 9780807832592, 0807832596
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