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Author: Samuel Kelton Jr. Roberts
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0807859346
Category: Medical

Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (Studies in Social Medicine)

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Download Infectious Fear medical books for free.
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. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political le Get Infectious Fear our bestseller medical books.

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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. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains Moderate white and black political le

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