Building a Healthy Black Harlem:  Health Politics in Harlem, New York, from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression
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Table of Contents

List of Tables

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

Chapter 1: Health Conditions in Harlem in the Early Years of Black Urbanization

9

Chapter 2: “We will have to trouble you to come along for practicing medicine without a physician's license”: The Criminalization of Magico-Religious Workers

31

Chapter 3: Health Activism and the Harlem Hospital

59

Chapter 4: “Child, I don't think this is a birth mark”: Community Agency and Responses to Health Conditions

87

Chapter 5: A New Deal for Health and Well-Being?

107

Afterword: Enduring Poor Health

129

Notes

137

Bibliography

167

Index

201