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Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942
John McKiernan-González
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Description for Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942
Hardback. In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-Gonzalez examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. Num Pages: 440 pages, 17 illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJK; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5983 x 3971 x 33. Weight in Grams: 744.
In Fevered Measures, John Mckiernan-González examines public health campaigns along the Texas-Mexico border between 1848 and 1942 and reveals the changing medical and political frameworks U.S. health authorities used when facing the threat of epidemic disease. The medical borders created by these officials changed with each contagion and sometimes varied from the existing national borders. Federal officers sought to distinguish Mexican citizens from U.S. citizens, a process troubled by the deeply interconnected nature of border communities. Mckiernan-González uncovers forgotten or ignored cases in which Mexicans, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and other groups were subject to—and sometimes agents of—quarantines, inspections, detentions, and forced-treatment regimens. These cases illustrate the ways that medical encounters shaped border identities before and after the Mexican Revolution. Mckiernan-González also maintains that the threat of disease provided a venue to destabilize identity at the border, enacted processes of racialization, and re-legitimized the power of U.S. policymakers. He demonstrates how this complex history continues to shape and frame contemporary perceptions of the Latino body today.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822352570
SKU
V9780822352570
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About John McKiernan-González
John Mckiernan-González is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin.
Reviews for Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942
“Mckiernan-Gonzalez . . . adds substantially to the large literature on the history of public health, particularly its role in controlling immigration into the United States.”
Stephen J. Kunitz
American Historical Review
“Fevered Measures is a wonderful and significant contribution to Latina/o studies, medical history, and borderlands history.”
Mark Allan Goldberg
Pacific Historical Review
“Fevered Measures is an engaging and multi-layered historical narrative that underscores the centrality of public health to daily life, social relations and power dynamics along the TexasMexico border over one century. . . . What makes this story particularly compelling is that Mckiernan-González frames it with a compassionate and informed plea for greater awareness of Latina/o health disparities.”
Alexandra Minna Stern
Global Public Health
“Mckeirnan-González provides a sophisticated and fine-grained analysis of the work of overzealous public health officials on the border, but he also places these efforts in a global imperial context.”
Elliott Young
Journal of American History
“Fevered Measures gives us a penetrating view of the intersections between race and public health policies, bringing new insights to the history of both the borderlands and US public health. It will be valuable to students and researchers in Chicano/Latino studies, in social sciences and humanities. Appealing also to a broader audience, this welcome book contributes significantly to the current debates about Latinos and American public health. . . .”
Ana I. Ugarte
Latino Studies
Stephen J. Kunitz
American Historical Review
“Fevered Measures is a wonderful and significant contribution to Latina/o studies, medical history, and borderlands history.”
Mark Allan Goldberg
Pacific Historical Review
“Fevered Measures is an engaging and multi-layered historical narrative that underscores the centrality of public health to daily life, social relations and power dynamics along the TexasMexico border over one century. . . . What makes this story particularly compelling is that Mckiernan-González frames it with a compassionate and informed plea for greater awareness of Latina/o health disparities.”
Alexandra Minna Stern
Global Public Health
“Mckeirnan-González provides a sophisticated and fine-grained analysis of the work of overzealous public health officials on the border, but he also places these efforts in a global imperial context.”
Elliott Young
Journal of American History
“Fevered Measures gives us a penetrating view of the intersections between race and public health policies, bringing new insights to the history of both the borderlands and US public health. It will be valuable to students and researchers in Chicano/Latino studies, in social sciences and humanities. Appealing also to a broader audience, this welcome book contributes significantly to the current debates about Latinos and American public health. . . .”
Ana I. Ugarte
Latino Studies