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Abel, Emily K., and Nancy Reifel. "Interactions Between Public Health Nurses and Clients on American Indian Reservartions During the 1930s." Social History of Medicine 9.1 (1996):89-108.
[Keywords: North America, gender, medicine, Native, public health]

Albiston, Catherine. "The Social Meaning of the Norplant Condition: Constitutional Considerations of Race, Class, and Gender." Berkeley Women's Law Journal 9 (1994):9-57.
[Keywords: North America, gender, public health]

Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
[Keywords: colonialism, Asia, public health]

Bailey, Eric. Urban African American Health Care. Lanham: University of Press America, 1991.
[Keywords: North America, medicine, public health]

Benson, Todd. Race, health, and power: The federal government and American Indian health, 1909-1955. Ph.D. Dissertation. Stanford Univ., 1994.[Keywords: North America, Native, public health]

Braithwaite, Ronald, and Sandra Taylor. Health Issues in the Black Community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1992.
[Keywords: North America, medicine, public health]

Braslow, Joel. "In the Name of Therapeutics: The Practice of Sterilization in a California State Hospital." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 51.1 (1996):29-52.
[Keywords: North America, eugenics, medicine, public health]

Bunkle, Phillida. "Calling the Shots: The International Politics of Depo-Provera." In The "Racial" Economy of Science. Edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 287-302.
[Keywords: gender, public health]

Caron, Simone M. Race, class, and gender: The evolution of reproductive policy in the United States, 1800-1989. Ph.D. Dissertation. Clark Univ., 1990.[Keywords: gender, public health]

Davis, Angela. "Racism, Birth Control, and Reproductive Rights." In Women, Race, and Class. New York: Random House, 1983. 202-21.
[Keywords: gender, public health]

Dubois, Laurent. "A Spoonful of Blood: Haitians, Racism and AIDS." Science As Culture 6.1 (1996):7-43.
[Keywords: colonialism, medicine, public health]

Farmer, Paul. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
[Keywords: medicine, public health, colonialism, North America, Caribbean]

Fee, Elizabeth. "Public Health in Baltimore: Childhood Lead Paint Poisoning, 1930-1970." Maryland Historical Magazine 87.Sept. (1992):267-93.
[Keywords: North America, public health]

Gibbs, Tyson. A Guide to Ethnic Health Collections in the United States. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1996.
ABSTRACT: A preliminary survey of libraries and other repositories for collections relevant to the health of non-white ethnic groups.
[Keywords: North America, public health]

Gordon, Linda. Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman, 1976.
[Keywords: North America, gender, medicine, public health, Stoler]

Grossman, Atina. Reforming Sex: The German Movement for Birth Control and Abortion Reform, 1920-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
[Keywords: Europe, eugenics, public health]

Gutmann, Myron, and Kenneth H. Fliess. "The Social Context of Child Mortality in the American Southwest." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 26.4 (1996):589-614.
[Keywords: North America, public health]

Hammer, Lawrence. "The Dark Side to Donovanosis: Color, Climate, Race and Racism in American South Venerology." Journal of Medical Humanities 18.1 (1997):29-57.
[Keywords: North America, environment, medicine, public health, sexuality]

Hammonds, Evelynn. "Race, Sex, AIDS: The Construction of 'Other'." Radical America 20.6 (1987):28-36.
[Keywords: North America, gender, medicine, public health]

Harrison, Mark. Public Health in British India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
[Keywords: colonialism, Asia, public health]

Higgs, Edward. "The Statistical Big Bang of 1911: Ideology, Technological Innovation and the Production of Medical Statistics." Social History of Medicine 9.3 (1996):409-26.
ABSTRACT: "This paper examines the relationship between intellectual debates, technologies for analysing information, an dthe produciton of staitistics in the General Register Office (GRO) in London in the early twentieth century. It argues that the controversy between eugenicists and public health officials respecting the cause and effect of class-specific variations in fertilitiy led to the introduction of questions on the 1911 census on marital fertility...."
[Keywords: medicine, public health, technology]

Hogue, Carol J. Roland, and Martha A. Hargraves. "Class, Race, and Infant Mortality in the United States." American Journal of Public Health 83.1 (1993):9-11.
[Keywords: North America, economics, public health]

Katz, Elaine. The White Death: Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines, 1886-1910. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.
[Keywords: Africa, colonialism, medicine, public health]

Kraut, Alan. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace". New York: Basic Books, 1994.
[Keywords: North America, eugenics, genetics, medicine, public health]

Krieger, Nancy. "Sicknesses of Society: Gender, Race, Class and Epidemiology." Women's Review of Books 10.5 (1993):18-20.
[Keywords: economics, gender, public health]

Kunitz, Stephen. "The History and Politics of U.S. Health Care Policy for American Indians." American Journal of Public Health 86.10 (1996):1464-73.
[Keywords: North America, Native American, colonialism, public health]

Lerner, Barron H. "Constructing Medical Indications: The Sterilization of Women with Heart Disease or Tuberculosis, 1905-1935." Journal of the HIstory of Medicine and Allied Sciences 49.3 (1994):362-79.
[Keywords: gender, public health]

Levins, Richard, and Richard Lewontin. "Applied Biology in the Third World: The Struggle for Revolutionary Science." In The "Racial" Economy of Science. Edited by Sandra Harding. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. 315-325.
[Keywords: biology, public health, colonialism]

Lewis, M. "The "health of the race" and infant health in New South Wales: perspectives on medicine and empire." In Disease, Medicine, and Empire. Edited by R.M. MacLeod and M.J. Lewis. London: Routledge, 1988. 301-315.
[Keywords: colonialism, medicine, public health]

Lippman, `Abby. "Led (Astray) by Genetic Maps: The Cartography of the Human Genome and Health Care." Social Science and Medicine 35.12 (1992):1469-76.
[Keywords: genetics, public health]

Manderson, Lenore. "Race, Colonial Mentality and Public Health in Early Twentieth Century Malaya." In The Underside of Malaysian History. Edited by Peter Rimmer and Lisa Allen. Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1990. 193-213.
[Keywords: Asia, colonialism, public health]

Markel, Howard. "'Knocking Out the Cholera:' Cholera, Class, and Quarantine in New York City, 1892." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 69.3 (1995):420-57.
[Keywords: North America, economics, public health]

McCann, Carole R. Race, class, and gender in U.S. birth control politics, 1920-1945.. Ph.D. Dissertation. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, 1987.[Keywords: gender, public health]

Murphy, John M. "'To Create a Race of Thoroughbreds:' Margaret Sanger and The Birth Control Review." Women's Studies in Communication 13 (1990):23-45.
[Keywords: gender, public health, nationalism]

Murphy, Timothy, and Marc Lappe. Justice and the Human Genome Project. Berkeley: University Of California Press, 1994.
[Keywords: genetics, public health]

Nestel, Sheryl. "'Other Mothers': Race and Representation in Natural Childbirth Discourse." Resources for Feminist Research = documentaion sur la Recherche Feministe 23.1 (1994-1995):5-19.
[Keywords: gender, public health]

Nicholson, M. "Nineteenth-century medical attitudes to the Maori population of New Zealand." Social History of Medicine Bulletin 39 (1986):35-7.
[Keywords: colonialism, public health, south Pacific]

Rice, Mitchell, and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Public Policy and the Black Hospital: From Slavery to Segreagation to Integration. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1994.
[Keywords: North America, medicine, public health]

Rosner, David and Gerald Markowitz. "Race, Foster Care, and the Politics of Abandonment in New York City." American Journal of Public Health 87 (1997):1844-49.
[Keywords: North America, childhood, public health]

Ross, Loretta J. "African-American Women and Abortion: A Neglected History." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 3 (1992):274-284.
[Keywords: gender, public health, North America]

Smith, Susan. "White Nurses, Black Midwives, and Public Health in Mississippi, 1920-1950." Nursing History Review 2 (1994):29-49.
[Keywords: North America, gender, public health]

Solinger, Rickie. Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. New York: Routledge, 1992.
[Keywords: gender, public health]

Sproule-Jones, Megan. "Crusading for the Forgotten: Dr. Peter Bryce, Public Health, and Prairie Native Residential Schools." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = buletin Canadien D'Histoire de la Medicine 13.2 (1996):199-224.
[Keywords: North America, native, public health]

Tennant, Margaret. "Children's Health Camps in New Zealand: The Making of a Movement, 1919-1940." Social History of Medicine 9.1 (1996):69-87.
ABSTRACT: " The children's health camp movement in New Zealand was the product of early twentieth-century concerns about nationally efficiency and racial strength."
[Keywords: South Pacific, childhood, public health, nationalism]

Thomas, Nicholas, and David Arnold. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in 19th Century India. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1992.
[Keywords: colonialism, Asia, public health]

Trombley, S. The Right to Reproduce: A History of Coercive Sterilization. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988.
[Keywords: eugenics, public health]

Twohig, Peter. "Colonial Care: Medical Attendance among the Mi'Kmaq in Nova Scotia." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History = Buletin Canadien d'Histoire de la Medecine 13.2 (1996):333-353.
[Keywords: North America, colonialism, medicine, Native, public health]

Wailoo, Keith. Drawing Blood Medical Conception of Disease in 20th Century America from Chlorisis to Sickle Cell Anemia. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Philadelphia, 1992.[Keywords: North America, medicine, public health]

Warner, John Harley. "Cultural Nationalism and Tropical Fevers: Models of Colonial Medicine in the American South." In Mundializacion de la Cienncia y Cultura Nacional. Edited by A. LaTuente and et. al. Madrid: Doce Calles, 1993. 511-18.
[Keywords: North America, colonialism, medicine, public health]

Weindling, Paul. Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
[Keywords: eugenics, Europe, public health]

 

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