Tanya Hart

(Author)

Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915-1930Hardcover, 1 May 2015

Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women's Health in New York City, 1915-1930
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Part of Series
Culture, Labor, History
Print Length
336 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
1 May 2015
ISBN-10
1479867993
ISBN-13
9781479867998

Description

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. Nevertheless, poor and working-class African American, British West Indian, and Southern Italian women all received some of the nation's best health care during this period.

Health in the City challenges traditional ideas of early twentieth-century urban black health care by showing a program that was simultaneously racialized and cutting-edge. It reveals that even the most well-meaning public health programs may inadvertently reinforce perceptions of inferiority that they were created to fix.

Product Details

Author:
Tanya Hart
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 May 2015
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm
Genre:
Medical/Medicine Aspects
ISBN-10:
1479867993
ISBN-13:
9781479867998
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
336
Weight:
544.31 gm

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