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

In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring 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 weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. This Work Explores The Complex Relations Between The Institutions And Ideologies Of Health And People Of Color In America. It 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 Weaves Together A Complicated History To Show The Role That Health And Medicine Have Played Throughout The Past In Defining The Ideal Citizen. By Creating An Intricate Portrait Of The Close Associations Of Race, Medicine, And Public Health, The Book Helps Us Better Understand The Long And Fraught History Of Health Care In America. -- From Publisher's Website. Curing The Nation With Cacti : Native Healing And State Building Before The Texas Revolution / Mark Allan Goldberg -- Complicating Colonial Narratives : Medical Encounters Around The Salish Sea, 1853-1878 / Jennifer Seltz -- I Studied And Practiced Medicine Without Molestation : African American Doctors In The First Years Of Freedom / Gretchen Long -- At The Nation's Edge : African American Migrants And Smallpox In The Late-nineteenth-century Mexican-american Borderlands / John Mckiernan-gonzález -- Diagnosing The Ailments Of Black Citizenship : African American Physicians And The Dilemma Of Mental Illness, 1895-1940 / Martin Summers. An Indispensable Service : Midwives And Medical Officials After New Mexico Statehood / Lena Mcquade-salzfass -- Professionalizing Local Girls : Nursing And U.s. Colonial Rule In Hawai'i, 1920-1948 / Jean J. Kim -- Borders, Laborers, And Racialized Medicalization : Mexican Immigration And U.s. Public Health Practices In The Twentieth Century / Natalia Molina -- A Transformation For Migrants : Mexican Farmworkers And Federal Health Reform During The New Deal Era / Verónica Martínez-matsuda -- Hunger In America And The Power Of Television : Poor People, Physicians, And The Mass Media In The War Against Poverty / Laurie B. Green. Making Crack Babies : Race Discourse And The Biologization Of Behavior / Jason E. Glenn -- Suffering And Resistance, Voice And Agency : Thoughts On History And The Tuskegee Syphilis Study / Susan M. Reverby. Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-gonzález, And Martin Summers, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 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Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Politics of Mental Illness, 1895–1940 120 6. “An Indispensable Service”: Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico Statehood 144 7. Professionalizing “Local Girls”: Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai‘i, 1920–1948 172 8. Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century 196 9. “A Transformation for Migrants”: Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform during the New Deal Era 214 10. “Hunger in America” and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty 240 11. Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of Behavior 266 12. Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study 290 Contributors 304 Index 306 A 306 B 307 C 308 D 309 E 310 F 311 G 311 H 312 I 314 J 314 K 314 L 314 M 315 N 317 O 319 P 320 Q 321 R 321 S 321 T 323 U 324 V 324 W 325 Y 325 Introduction Laurie Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers 1. Curing the Nation with Cacti: Native Healing and State Building before the Texas Revolution Mark Allan Goldberg 2. “We Were Promised Medicines”: Health and Illness around the Salish Sea, 1853–1878 Jennifer Seltz 3. “I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation”: African American Doctors in the First Years of Freedom Gretchen Long 4. At the Nation’s Edge: African American Migrants and Smallpox in the Mexican-American Borderlands John Mckiernan-González 5. Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Dilemma of Mental Illness, 1895–1940 Martin Summers 6. “An Indispensable Service”: Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico Statehood Lena McQuade-Salzfass 7. Professionalizing “Local Girls”: Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai’i, 1920–1948 Jean J. Kim 8. Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century Natalia Molina 9. “A Transformation for Migrants”: Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform During the New Deal Era Verónica Martínez-Matsuda 10. “Hunger in America” and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty Laurie B. Green 11. Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of Behavior Jason E. Glenn 12. Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the “Tuskegee” Syphilis Study Susan M. Reverby Contributors Index In Precarious Prescriptions, Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers bring 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 weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen.By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America.Contributors: Jason E. Glenn, U of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Mark Allan Goldberg, U of Houston; Jean J. Kim; Gretchen Long, Williams College; Verónica Martínez-Matsuda, Cornell U; Lena McQuade-Salzfass, Sonoma State U; Natalia Molina, U of California, San Diego; Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College; Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington U. In Precarious Prescriptions , Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-Gonzlez, and Martin Summers bring 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 weaves together a complicated history to show the role that health and medicine have played throughout the past in defining the ideal citizen. By creating an intricate portrait of the close associations of race, medicine, and public health, Precarious Prescriptions helps us better understand the long and fraught history of health care in America. Jason E. Glenn, U of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Mark Allan Goldberg, U of Houston; Jean J. Kim; Gretchen Long, Williams College; Vernica Martnez-Matsuda, Cornell U; Lena McQuade-Salzfass, Sonoma State U; Natalia Molina, U of California, San Diego; Susan M. Reverby, Wellesley College; Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington U.