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Germs know no color line: black health and public policy in Atlanta, 1900-1918.
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This article is published in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.The article was published on 1985-01-01. It has received 25 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public policy & Atlanta.read more
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The Limits of Jim Crow: Race and the Provision of Water and Sewerage Services in American Cities, 1880-1925
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address two related questions: 1) To what extent did cities and towns provide African Americans adequate water and sewer services during the era of Jim Crow (1880-1925), and 2) Whatmotivated local governments to allow African Americans access to water and sanitary services?
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Basin Street blues: drainage and environmental equity in New Orleans, 1890-1930
TL;DR: In this paper, an examination of the design and delivery of drainage and sewerage services compared with racial segregation offers insights into the discussion of environmental equity and also the agents of segregation in New Orleans.
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"There wasn't a lot of comforts in those days:" African Americans, public health, and the 1918 influenza epidemic.
TL;DR: The authors found that during the 1918 influenza epidemic, the incidence of influenza was lower in African Americans than white Americans, contrary to racist theories of black biological inferiority, racial barriers in medicine and public health, and poor health status.
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Epidemiologists explain pellagra: gender, race, and political economy in the work of Edgar Sydenstricker.
TL;DR: The classic epidemiological studies of Joseph Goldberger and Edgar Sydenstricker are reviewed, who argued that pellagra was deeply rooted in the political economy of cotton monoculture in the South.