Infectious Fear
Title | Infectious Fear PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Kelton Roberts Jr. |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 2009-04-30 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780807894071 |
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. Reactionary white politicians and health officials promoted "racial hygiene" and sought to control TB through Jim Crow quarantines, Roberts explains. African Americans, in turn, protested the segregated, overcrowded housing that was the true root of the tuberculosis problem. Moderate white and black political leadership reconfigured definitions of health and citizenship, extending some rights while constraining others. Meanwhile, those who suffered with the disease--as its victims or as family and neighbors--made the daily adjustments required by the devastating effects of the "white plague." Exploring the politics of race, reform, and public health, Infectious Fear uses the tuberculosis crisis to illuminate the limits of racialized medicine and the roots of modern health disparities. Ultimately, it reveals a disturbing picture of the United States' health history while offering a vision of a more democratic future.
Infectious Fear
Title | Infectious Fear PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Roberts |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 313 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN | 9781653509201 |
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.
Infectious Fear
Title | Infectious Fear PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Roberts |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0807832596 |
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
Contagion of Violence
Title | Contagion of Violence PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 2013-03-06 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0309263646 |
The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or followed by other violent acts. In the field of public health, such a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways. On April 30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in a more compelling and comprehensive way.
Contagious
Title | Contagious PDF eBook |
Author | Priscilla Wald |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2008-01-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780822341536 |
DIVShows how narratives of contagion structure communities of belonging and how the lessons of these narratives are incorporated into sociological theories of cultural transmission and community formation./div
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Title | Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic PDF eBook |
Author | David Quammen |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 591 |
Release | 2012-10 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0393066800 |
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerginghuman diseases.
I Come Quietly to Meet You
Title | I Come Quietly to Meet You PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Carmichael |
Publisher | Bethany House |
Total Pages | 151 |
Release | 2005-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0764200453 |
- A 40-day journey in the sheltering love of the ever-present God- Classic devotional thoughts from the writings of Amy Carmichael- Perfect for gift giving or personal use