Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion: a history of public health and migration to Los Angeles
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1. Verfasser: Abel, Emily K. 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press c2007
Schriftenreihe:Critical issues in health and medicine
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index
Pestilence in the promised land -- Strategies of exclusion -- Creating a tuberculosis program -- "Outsiders" -- Slashing services in the Great Depression -- Expelling Mexicans and Filipinos -- "Agitation over the migrant issue" -- Fighting TB in Black Los Angeles
Though notorious for its polluted air today, the city of Los Angeles once touted itself as a health resort. After the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, publicists launched a campaign to portray the city as the promised land, circulating countless stories of miraculous cures for the sick and debilitated. As more and more migrants poured in, however, a gap emerged between the city?s glittering image and its dark reality. Emily K. Abel shows how the association of the disease with ?tramps? during the 1880s and 1890s and Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary mea
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ISBN:0813543827
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