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Infectious fear (Record no. 57748)

MARC details
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fixed length control field 02391nam a22003974a 4500
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 362.196/995
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Roberts, Samuel,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Infectious fear
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Chapel Hill :
Name of publisher University of North Carolina Press,
Year of publication c2009.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xiii, 313 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps.
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Studies in social medicine
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction : disease histories and race histories -- Toward a historical epidemiology of African American tuberculosis -- The rise of the city and the decline of the Negro : the historical idea of Black tuberculosis and the politics of color and class -- Urban underdevelopment, politics, and the landscape of health -- Establishing boundaries : politics, science, and stigma in the early antituberculosis movement -- Locating African Americans and finding the "lung block" -- The web of surveillance and the emerging politics of public health in Baltimore -- The road to Henryton and the ends of progressivism -- Conclusion : unequal burdens : public health at the intersection of segregation and housing politics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Tuberculosis
Topical Term African Americans
Topical Term Urban health
Topical Term Segregation
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10313961

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