?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Community+Lynching+and+the+US+Asthma+Epidemic&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Rodrick&rft.creator=Fullilove%2C+Mindy&rft.creator=Wallace%2C+Deborah&rft.subject=Psychobiology&rft.description=We+explore+the+implications+of+IR+Cohen's+work+on+immune+cognition+for+understanding+rising+rates+of+asthma+morbidity+and+mortality+in+the+US.++Immune+cognition+is+inherently+linked+with+central+nervous+system+cognition%2C+and+with+the+cognitive+function+of+the+embedding+sociocultural+networks+by+which+individuals+are+acculturated+and+through+which+they+work+with+others+to+meet+challenges+of+threat+and+opportunity.+Externally-imposed+patterns+of+'structured+stress'+can%2C+through+their+effect+on+a+child's+socioculture%2C+become+synergistic+with+the+development+of+immune+cognition%2C+triggering+the+persistence+of+an+atopic+Th2+phenotype%2C+a+necessary+precursor+to+asthma+and+other+immune+diseases.+Structured+stress+in+the+US+particularly+includes+the+cross+sectional+and+longitudinal+effects+of+a+systematic+destruction+of+minority+urban+communities+occurring+since+the+end+of+World+War+II+which+we+characterize+as+community+lynching.+Reversal+of+the+rising+tide+of+asthma+and+related+chronic+diseases+in+the+US+thus+seems+unlikely+without+a+21st+Century+version+of+the+earlier+Great+Urban+Reforms+which+ended+the+scourge+of+infectious+diseases%2C+in+particular+an+end+to+the+de-facto+ethnic+cleansing+of+minority+neighborhood&rft.date=2003-02&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2757%2F1%2FAsthma4.pdf&rft.identifier=++Wallace%2C+Rodrick+and+Fullilove%2C+Mindy+and+Wallace%2C+Deborah++(2003)+Community+Lynching+and+the+US+Asthma+Epidemic.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2757%2F