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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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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• Authors: Laurie B. (EDT)/ Mckiernan-gonzalez Green, Laurie B. Mckiernan-Gonzalez Green, John Green Mckiernan-Gonzalez
• Assisted by: Laurie B. Green (Editor), John Mckiernan-Gonzalez (Editor), Martin Summers (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2014
• EAN: 9780816690473
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-9047-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous