Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation
- ISBN-10
- 0807832596
- ISBN-13
- 9780807832592
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 330
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Samuel Roberts
Description
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
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