Fevered Measures

John Mckiernan-GonzÁlez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Notes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases ixIntroduction 11. From the U.S.-Mexican War to the Mexican-Texas Epidemic: Fevers, Race, and the Making of a Medical Border 182. The Promise of Progress: Quarantines and the Medical Fusion of Race and Nation, 1890-1895 593. The Appearance of Progress: Black Labor, Smallpox, and the Body Politics of Transnational American Citizenship, 1895 784. The Power of Progress: Laredo and the Limits of Federal Quarantines, 1898-1903 1235. Domestic Tensions at an American Crossroads: Bordering on Gender, Labor, and Typhus Control, 1910-1920 1656. Bodies of Evidence: Vaccination and the Body Politics of Transnational Mexican Citizenship, 1910-1920 1987. Between Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Border: Race, Citizenship, and National Identities, 1920-1942 236Epilogue. Moving between the Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands 274Acknowledgments 285Notes 289Bibliography 363Index 403

“Mckiernan-Gonzalez . . . adds substantially to the large literature on the history of public health, particularly its role in controlling immigration into the United States.” - Stephen J. Kunitz (American Historical Review) “Fevered Measures is a wonderful and significant contribution to Latina/o studies, medical history, and borderlands history.” - Mark Allan Goldberg (Pacific Historical Review) “Fevered Measures is an engaging and multi-layered historical narrative that underscores the centrality of public health to daily life, social relations and power dynamics along the TexasMexico border over one century. . . . What makes this story particularly compelling is that Mckiernan-GonzÁlez frames it with a compassionate and informed plea for greater awareness of Latina/o health disparities.” - Alexandra Minna Stern (Global Public Health) “Mckeirnan-GonzÁlez provides a sophisticated and fine-grained analysis of the work of overzealous public health officials on the border, but he also places these efforts in a global imperial context.” - Elliott Young (Journal of American History) “Fevered Measures gives us a penetrating view of the intersections between race and public health policies, bringing new insights to the history of both the borderlands and US public health. It will be valuable to students and researchers in Chicano/Latino studies, in social sciences and humanities. Appealing also to a broader audience, this welcome book contributes significantly to the current debates about Latinos and American public health. . . .” - Ana I. Ugarte (Latino Studies)