Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America
By (Author) Laurie B. Green
Edited by John Mckiernan-Gonzlez
Edited by Martin Summers
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st May 2014
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Social discrimination and social justice
Ethnic groups and multicultural studies
362.10973
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
Precarious Prescriptions 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.
Reviews
"Precarious Prescriptions forges vital new terrain in the study of race, medicine, and public health in the U.S. and its borderlands. The books carefully crafted essays explore the relationships between medicine, health, and lived experience in such diverse locales and settings as Hawaii, pre-revolutionary Texas, the Mexican-American borderlands, and the Salish Sea. By so doing Precarious Prescriptions 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 The Protest Psychosis
Author Bio
Laurie B. Green is associate professor of history at University of Texas at Austin.
John Mckiernan-Gonzlez is assistant professor of history at Texas State University.
Martin Summers is associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College.
