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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
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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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