Synopsis
Precarious Prescriptions 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 helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America.
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Review
""Precarious Prescriptions" forges vital new terrain in the study of race, medicine, and public health in the U.S. and its borderlands. The book s carefully crafted essays explore the relationships between medicine, health, and lived experience in such diverse locales and settings as Hawai i, pre-revolutionary Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, and the Salish Sea. By so doing "Precarious Prescriptions" expands our understandings, not just of medicalized race and racisms, but of medicine itself, in all of its colonizing and liberatory implications. This is vital reading indeed." Jonathan M. Metzl, author of "The Protest Psychosis"
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"Precarious Prescriptions forges vital new terrain in the study of race, medicine, and public health in the U.S. and its borderlands. The book's carefully crafted essays explore the relationships between medicine, health, and lived experience in such diverse locales and settings as Hawai'i, pre-revolutionary Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, and the Salish Sea. By so doing Precarious Prescriptions expands our understandings, not just of medicalized 'race' and 'racisms, ' but of medicine itself, in all of its colonizing and liberatory implications. This is vital reading indeed." --Jonathan M. Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis
About the Author
Laurie B. Green is associate professor of history at University of Texas at Austin. John Mckiernan-Gonzalez 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.
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