Green, Laurie B. (Editor)
Mckiernan-González, John Raymond (Editor)
Summers, Martin Anthony (Editor)
University of Minnesota Press
Physical Details: xxviii + 296 pp.; ill.
Language: English
his work explores the complex relations between the institutions and ideologies of health and people of color in America. It 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 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, the book helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America.
...MoreReview Vanessa Northington Gamble (2015) Review of "Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America". Social History of Medicine (pp. 652-654).
Review Pollock, Anne (2015) Review of "Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 814-816).
Chapter Goldberg, Mark Allan (2014) Curing the Nation with Cacti: Native Healing and State Building before the Texas Revolution. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Seltz, Jennifer (2014) We Were Promised Medicines: Health and Illness around the Salish Sea, 1853-1878. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Long, Gretchen (2014) I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation: African American Doctors in the First Years of Freedom. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Mckiernan-González, John (2014) At the Nation's Edge: African American Migrants and Smallpox in the Mexican-American Borderlands. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Summers, Martin (2014) Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Dilemma of Mental Illness, 1895-1940. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Mcquade-Salzfass, Lena (2014) An Indispensable Service: Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico Statehood. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Kim, Jean J. (2014) Professionalizing “Local Girls”: Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai'i, 1920-1948. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Molina, Natalia (2014) Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Martínez-Matsuda, Verónica (2014) A Transformation for Migrants: Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform during the New Deal Era. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Green, Laurie B. (2014) “Hunger in America” and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Glenn, Jason E. (2014) Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of Behavior. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
Chapter Reverby, Susan M. (2014) Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. In: Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America.
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