Infectious Fear
Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19920727 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel Roberts (0009-0000-0024-7191), Samuel Kelton Roberts (corresponding author), Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 328 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation (Studies in Social Medicine) (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5149/9780807894071_roberts |
| OpenAlex | W4237916644 |
| Open Library | OL22665470M |
| ISBN | 9780807894071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) ranked among the top three causes of mortality among urban African Americans. Often afflicting an entire family or large segments of a neighborhood, the plague of TB was as mysterious as it was fatal. This book examines how individuals and institutions—black and white, public and private—responded to the challenges of TB in a segregated society. It explains that reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted “racial hygiene” and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease—as its victims or as family and neighbors—made the daily adjustments required by the devastating effects of the “white plague.” Exploring the politics of race, reform, and public health, the book uses the tuberculosis crisis to illuminate the limits of racialized medicine and the roots of modern health disparities. Ultimately, it reveals a disturbing picture of the United States' health history while offering a vision of a more democratic future
Citizenship · Criminology · Democracy · Plague (disease) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public health · Race (biology) · Reactionary · Sociology · Tuberculosis · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · African americans · Black or African American · Diseases · epidemiology · Health aspects · Health aspects of Segregation · History · modern · Prejudice · Prejudices · Pulmonary Tuberculosis · Segregation · Tuberculosis, Pulmonary · Tuberkulosebekämpfung · united states · Urban health
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“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”
The space that time forgot
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Between Decay and Maintenance
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Against the Very Idea of the Politicization of Public Health Policy
Outstanding Services to Negro Health”
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Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900–1948
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Epidemic Inequities
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| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |