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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816690472 ISBN 13: 9780816690473

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Laurie B. Green is associate professor of history at University of Texas at Austin.

John Mckiernan-González 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816690472
• ISBN 13: 9780816690473
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Green Laurie B., Mckiernan-González John, Summers Martin