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Author Hart, Tanya, 1956- author.

Title Health in the city : race, poverty, and the negotiation of women's health in New York City, 1915-1930 / Tanya Hart
Published New York : New York University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Culture, labor, history series
Culture, labor, history.
Contents Migration and the city -- Professionalization in the city -- Work in the city -- Culture in the city -- Birthing in the city : Columbus Hill -- Health in Columbus Hill -- Birthing in the city : the Mulberry District -- Health in the Mulberry District
Summary ""At the turn of the twentieth century, black and white women migrated to New York City, a new place and environment swirling with ideas and practices of race, racism, germ theory and sanitation. Health in the City tells us the very human story of how pioneering, yet racialized health care thinking and services complicated the meaning of these women's motherhood as well as their own health and welfare. Hart's discovery and analysis of previously untapped archival records, offers an important narrative and reveals a remarkable mastery of historical methods that are a model of interdisciplinary
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Urban health -- New York (State) -- New York
Women's health services -- New York (State) -- New York
African Americans -- Health -- New York (State) -- New York
Maternal health services -- New York (State) -- New York
Minorities -- Health -- New York (State) -- New York
Poverty -- New York (State) -- New York
Urban Health -- history
Women's Health -- history
Black or African American -- history
History, 20th Century
Maternal Health Services -- history
Minority Health -- history
Poverty -- history
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Maternal health services
Poverty
Urban health
Women's health services
SUBJECT New York (N.Y.)
Subject New York (State) -- New York
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781479875184
147987518X