{"product_id":"precarious-prescriptions-9780816690473","title":"Precarious Prescriptions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrecarious Prescriptions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePrecarious Prescriptions\u003c\/i\u003e forges vital new terrain in the study of race, medicine, and public health in the U.S. and its borderlands. The book’s carefully crafted essays explore the relationships between medicine, health, and lived experience in such diverse locales and settings as Hawai’i, pre-revolutionary Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, and the Salish Sea. By so doing \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Prescriptions\u003c\/i\u003e expands our understandings, not just of medicalized ‘race’ and ‘racisms,’ but of medicine itself, in all of its colonizing and liberatory implications. This is vital reading indeed.\" —Jonathan M. Metzl, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Protest Psychosis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cb\u003eLaurie Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Curing the Nation with Cacti: Native Healing and State Building before the Texas Revolution\u003cb\u003eMark Allan Goldberg\u003cb\u003e2. “We Were Promised Medicines”: Health and Illness around the Salish Sea, 1853–1878\u003cb\u003eJennifer Seltz\u003cb\u003e3. “I Studied and Practiced Medicine without Molestation”: African American Doctors in the First Years of Freedom\u003cb\u003eGretchen Long\u003cb\u003e4. At the Nation’s Edge: African American Migrants and Smallpox in the Mexican-American Borderlands\u003cb\u003eJohn Mckiernan-González\u003cb\u003e5. Diagnosing the Ailments of Black Citizenship: African American Physicians and the Dilemma of Mental Illness, 1895–1940\u003cb\u003eMartin Summers\u003cb\u003e6. “An Indispensable Service”: Midwives and Medical Officials after New Mexico Statehood\u003cb\u003eLena McQuade-Salzfass\u003cb\u003e7. Professionalizing “Local Girls”: Nursing and U.S. Colonial Rule in Hawai’i, 1920–1948\u003cb\u003eJean J. Kim\u003cb\u003e8. Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century\u003cb\u003eNatalia Molina\u003cb\u003e9. “A Transformation for Migrants”: Mexican Farmworkers and Federal Health Reform During the New Deal Era\u003cb\u003eVerónica Martínez-Matsuda\u003cb\u003e10. “Hunger in America” and the Power of Television: Poor People, Physicians, and the Mass Media in the War against Poverty\u003cb\u003eLaurie B. Green\u003cb\u003e11. Making Crack Babies: Race Discourse and the Biologization of Behavior\u003cb\u003eJason E. Glenn\u003cb\u003e12. Suffering and Resistance, Voice and Agency: Thoughts on History and the “Tuskegee” Syphilis Study\u003cb\u003eSusan M. Reverby\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003cb\u003eIndex\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MP - University Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038554849623,"sku":"9780816690473","price":29.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816690473.jpg?v=1750940655","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/precarious-prescriptions-9780816690473","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}