Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America

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PRECARIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS This page intentionally left blank PRECARIOUS PRESCRIPTIONS Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS Minneapolis London L A U R I E B . G R E E N , J O H N M C K I E R N A N - G O N Z Á L E Z , A N D M A R T I N S U M M E R S , E D I T O R S Portions of chapter 3 were previously published as “No License, Nor No Deplomer,” in Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care in Slavery and Emancipation (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 114–38; copyright 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press; reprinted by permission of the publisher, www.uncpress.unc.edu. Chapter 8 was previously published as “Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization: Mexican Immigration and U.S. Public Health Practices in the Twentieth Century,” American Journal of Public Health 101, no. 6 (June 2011): 1024–31. Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Precarious prescriptions : contested histories of race and health in North America / Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers, editors. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-9046-6 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8166-9047-3 (pb : alk. paper) 1. African Americans—Health and hygiene. 2. Hispanic Americans—Health and hygiene. 3. Mexicans—Health and hygiene—United States. 4. Discrimination in medical care—North America. I. Green, Laurie B. (Laurie Beth), editor of compilation. II. Mckiernan-González, John Raymond, editor of compilation. III. Summers, Martin Anthony, editor of compilation. ra448.5.n4p74 2014 362.1089'96073—dc23 2013028409 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...