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Curing the nation with cacti : native healing and state building before the Texas revolution / Mark Allan Goldberg -- Complicating colonial narratives : medical encounters 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 late-nineteenth-century Mexican-American borderlands / John Mckiernan-González -- 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 / Verónica Martínez-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. |
