Fevered Measures - Public Health and Race At the Texas-Mexico Border, 18481942

John Mckiernan-González is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin.

List of contents

Notes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases ix

Introduction 1

1. From the U.S.-Mexican War to the Mexican-Texas Epidemic: Fevers, Race, and the Making of a Medical Border 18

2. The Promise of Progress: Quarantines and the Medical Fusion of Race and Nation, 1890-1895 59

3. The Appearance of Progress: Black Labor, Smallpox, and the Body Politics of Transnational American Citizenship, 1895 78

4. The Power of Progress: Laredo and the Limits of Federal Quarantines, 1898-1903 123

5. Domestic Tensions at an American Crossroads: Bordering on Gender, Labor, and Typhus Control, 1910-1920 165

6. Bodies of Evidence: Vaccination and the Body Politics of Transnational Mexican Citizenship, 1910-1920 198

7. Between Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Border: Race, Citizenship, and National Identities, 1920-1942 236

Epilogue. Moving between the Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands 274

Acknowledgments 285

Notes 289

Bibliography 363

Index 403

About the author

John Mckiernan-González

Summary

In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease.

Product details

• Authors: MCKIERNAN GONZALEZ JOHN RAYMOND, John Mckiernan-Gonzalez, John Raymond Mckiernan-Gonzalez, John Mckiernan-González
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2012
• EAN: 9780822352570
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5257-0
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Public Health und Präventivmedizin, MEDICAL / Public Health, HISTORY / United States / General, History - General History, HISTORY / Latin America / Mexico