Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

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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.
Copyright:
2014

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ISBN-13:
9781452941639
Related ISBNs:
9780816690473
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
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Copyrighted By:
University of Minnesota Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Laurie B. Green
Edited by:
John Mckiernan-González
Edited by:
Martin Summers

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