Infectious fear :: politics, disease, and the health effects of segregation /

For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis 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. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examine...

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Main Author: Roberts, Samuel, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Series:Studies in social medicine.
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:For most of the first half of the twentieth century, tuberculosis 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. Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. examines how individuals and institutions--black and white, public and private--responded to the challenges of tuberculosis in a segregated society. --from publisher description.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-298) and index.
ISBN:9780807894071
0807894079
9781469605890
1469605899

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