TITLE: How Cancer Crosses the Color Line. The lecture examines the complex history of race and cancer in America, and uses this history to explore the forces continuously shaping health outcomes, clinical practices, epidemiological science, and disparities in care today. Windows 10 pro redstone 5 iso download. A pioneering study, How Cancer Crossed the Color Line gracefully documents how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions changed over time, and how the 'war on cancer' continues to be waged along the color line. He looks at this relationship over three time periods: from 1900 to 1950 when cancer was viewed a primarily a disease found in white people, from 1950 to 1970 when doctors began to view cancer as crossing the color line, and the 1970s when there appeared to be an alarming increase in cancer among African-Americans.
America Beyond The Color Line
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- Introduction: health awareness and the color line
- White plague
- Primitive's progress
- The feminine mystique of self-examination
- How the other half dies
- Between progress and protest
- The new politics of old differences
- Conclusion: the color of cancer.
Cancer in women--United States.
Minorities--Health and hygiene--United States.
African Americans--United States.
Health Education--history--United States.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Neoplasms--ethnology--United States.
Neoplasms--prevention & control--United States.
Women's Health--United States.
0195170172 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Not affiliated with Indiana University (licensed resources not accessible off-campus) In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a 'democratic disease' to a fearsome threat in communities of color. Drawing on film and fiction, on medical and epidemiological evidence, and on patients' accounts, Keith Wailoo tracks this transformation in cancer awareness, revealing how not only awareness, but cancer prevention, treatment, and survival have all been refracted through the lens of race.
Spanning more than a century, the book offers a sweeping account of the forces that simultaneously defined cancer as an intensely individualized and personal experience linked to whites, often categorizing people across the color line as racial types lacking similar personal dimensions. Wailoo describes how theories of risk evolved with changes in women's roles, with African-American and new immigrant migration trends, with the growth of federal cancer surveillance, and with diagnostic
advances, racial protest, and contemporary health activism. The book examines such powerful and transformative social developments as the mass black migration from rural south to urban north in the 1920s and 1930s, the World War II experience at home and on the war front, and the quest for civil rights
and equality in health in the 1950s and '60s. It also explores recent controversies that illuminate the diversity of cancer challenges in America, such as the high cancer rates among privileged women in Marin County, California, the heavy toll of prostate cancer among black men, and the questions about why Vietnamese-American women's cervical cancer rates are so high.
A pioneering study, How Cancer Crossed the Color Line gracefully documents how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions changed over time, and how the 'war on cancer' continues to be waged along the color line.
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Spanning more than a century, the book offers a sweeping account of the forces that simultaneously defined cancer as an intensely individualized and personal experience linked to whites, often categorizing people across the color line as racial types lacking similar personal dimensions. Wailoo describes how theories of risk evolved with changes in women's roles, with African-American and new immigrant migration trends, with the growth of federal cancer surveillance, and with diagnostic
advances, racial protest, and contemporary health activism. The book examines such powerful and transformative social developments as the mass black migration from rural south to urban north in the 1920s and 1930s, the World War II experience at home and on the war front, and the quest for civil rights
and equality in health in the 1950s and '60s. It also explores recent controversies that illuminate the diversity of cancer challenges in America, such as the high cancer rates among privileged women in Marin County, California, the heavy toll of prostate cancer among black men, and the questions about why Vietnamese-American women's cervical cancer rates are so high.
A pioneering study, How Cancer Crossed the Color Line gracefully documents how race and gender became central motifs in the birth of cancer awareness, how patterns and perceptions changed over time, and how the 'war on cancer' continues to be waged along the color line.
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