Rosner / Markowitz Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55380-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosner, David

Markowitz, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired”
1. Disease and Exploitation During the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras
2. Life and Death in Antebellum America
3. “The Surging Tide of Business. Yielding Up the Bones of the Dead”: Overwork, Poor Nutrition, Unhygienic Homes, and a Hazardous Workplace
4. Resetting the Ground Rules for Inequality: Labor, Law, and Health After the Civil War
5. Gasping for Breath: Creating New Diseases and Inequalities
6. Better Living Through Chemistry?
7. Darkest Before the Dawn?
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rosner David:
David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and the codirector of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School. He is author and editor of ten books, among them A Once Charitable Enterprise (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2004; Princeton University Press, 1987), Hives of Sickness: Epidemics and Public Health in New York City (Rutgers University Press, 1995), and Health Care in America: Essays in Social History, and coauthor with Gerald Markowitz of Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America, (Princeton University Press, 1991). His newest book is Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (California, 2013). He is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine.Markowitz Gerald:
Gerald Markowitz is distinguished professor of history at John Jay College. He is the coauthor with David Rosner of Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America, (Princeton University Press, 1991) and coeditor of The Contested Boundaries of Public Health (Rutgers, 2008).David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and the director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School.

Gerald Markowitz is distinguished professor of history at John Jay College.

Together, they have written many books, including Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth-Century America (1991) and Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children (2014). They are both elected members of the National Academy of Science’s National Academy of Medicine.