Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion a history of public health and migration to Los Angeles / Emily K. Abel.

Author/creator Abel, Emily K.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionx, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Tuberculosis--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --19th century.
Tuberculosis--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.
Immigrants--Diseases. --California. --Los Angeles. --History. --19th century.
Immigrants--Diseases. --California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.
Immigrants--Medical care. --California. --Los Angeles. --History. --19th century.
Immigrants--Medical care. --California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.
Discrimination in medical care--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --19th century.
Discrimination in medical care--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.
Public health--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --19th century.
Public health--California. --Los Angeles. --History. --20th century.
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary--history. --Los Angeles.
History, 19th Century--Los Angeles.
History, 20th Century--Los Angeles.
Minority Groups--Los Angeles.
Prejudice--Los Angeles.
Public Health--history. --Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations. --History. --19th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations. --History. --20th century.

SeriesCritical issues in health and medicine
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2007000028
ISBN9780813541754 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813541751 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813541761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN081354176X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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