Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion : : A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles / / Emily K. Abel.
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 s...
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 20 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Pestilence in the Promised Land
- Chapter 2. Strategies of Exclusion
- Chapter 3. Creating a Tuberculosis Program
- Chapter 4. "Outsiders"
- Chapter 5. Slashing Services in the Great Depression
- Chapter 6. Expelling Mexicans and Filipinos
- Chapter 7. "Agitation over the Migrant Issue"
- Chapter 8. Fighting TB in Black Los Angeles
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author