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Fevered measures : public health and race at the Texas-Mexico border, 1848-1942 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mckiernan-González, John Raymond
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > Transmission > Mexican-American Border Region > Prevention > History.
Public health > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects > Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Mexican-American Border Region > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From the Texas-Mexico border to the Mexican-Texas epidemic, 1848-1882
  • The promise of progress : quarantines and the fusion of race and nation
  • The appearance of progress : Black labor, smallpox, and the body politics of transnational American citizenship, 1895
  • The power of progress : 1898, Laredo and the limits of quarantine, 1899-1903
  • Domestic tensions at an American crossroads : bordering on gender, labor, and typhus control, 1910-1920
  • Bodies of evidence : vaccination and the body politics of transnational Mexican citizenship, 1910-1920
  • Border quarantine and the Texas-Mexico border : race, citizenship, and national identity, 1920-1940.