Precarious prescriptions : contested histories of race and health in North America / Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers, editors.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

xxviii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Curing the nation with cacti : native healing and state building before the Texas revolution / Mark Allan Goldberg -- We were promised medicines : health and illness around the Salish Sea, 1853/1878 / Jennifer Seltz -- I studied and practiced medicine without molestation : African American doctors in the first years of freedom / Gretchen Long -- At the nation's edge : African American migrants and smallpox in the Mexican-American borderlands / John Mckiernan-Gonzølez -- Diagnosing the ailments of black citizenship : African American physicians and the dilemma of mental illness, 1895/1940 / Martin Summers -- An indispensable service : midwives and medical officials after new Mexico statehood / Lena Mcquade-Salzfass -- Professionalizing "local girls" : nursing and U.S. colonial rule in Hawai'i, 1920/1948 / Jean J. Kim -- Borders, laborers, and racialized medicalization : Mexican immigration and U.S. public health practices in the twentieth century / Natalia Molina -- A transformation for migrants : Mexican farmworkers and federal health reform during the New Deal era / Verønica Martønez-Matsuda -- "Hunger in America" and the power of television : poor people, physicians, and the mass media in the war against poverty / Laurie B. Green -- Making crack babies : race discourse and the biologization of behavior / Jason E. Glenn -- Suffering and resistance, voice and agency : thoughts on history and the "Tuskegee" syphilis study / Susan M. Reverby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.