| Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles None Edition Contributor(s): Abel, Emily K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 081354176X ISBN-13: 9780813541761 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2007 Annotation: The author shows how the association of the disease with "tramps" during the 1880s and 1890s and the Dust Bowl refugees during the 1930s provoked exclusionary measures against both groups. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Public Health - Medical | Oncology - General |
| Dewey: 616.995 |
| LCCN: 2007000028 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.98" W x 8.95" (0.74 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the 2008 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association and Nominated for the 2008 William H. Welch Medal, AAHM 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 measures against both groups. In addition, public health officials sought not only to restrict the entry of Mexicans (the majority of immigrants) during the 1920s but also to expel them during the 1930s. Abel's revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic. |