From TB to AIDS : Epidemics among Urban Blacks since 1900

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Preface

Introduction: Opening the Historical Path

Part I. Discovering the Black Health Crisis 1. The Southern Negro Problem and the Origins of Sociomedical Racialism

2. The Turn Toward Scientific Epidemiology: Black Migrations, Worls War I, and the New Clinical Order

3. Medicine's First Line of Defense: Building the Black Public Health Sector in the 1920s

Part II. Federal Missions, Racial Realities 4. The Nation-State Confronts the Black Health Crisis: Depressions Through New Deal

5. The Black Health Paradigm Solidifies: From World War II to Pharmacological Revolution

6. Health Care Delivery and a People Divided: Facing the AIDS Epidemic

Appendix: Membership List of the Conference with Negro Leaders/American Social Hygiene Association, 1943

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Index