Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915-1930
(Part of the Culture, Labor, History Series Series)
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Shortly after the dawn of the twentieth century, the New York City Department of Health decided to address what it perceived as the racial nature of health. It delivered heavily racialized care in different neighborhoods throughout the city: syphillis treatment among African Americans, tuberculosis for Italian Americans, and so on. It was a challenging and ambitious program, dangerous for the providers, and troublingly reductive for the patients...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1479867993
ISBN13:9781479867998
Release Date:May 2015
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:336 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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