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Cover; Contagious Communities: Medicine, Migration, and the NHS in Post-War Britain; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Medicine, Migration, and the Afterimage of Empire; 'COLOUR', 'RACE', AND 'ETHNICITY': TERMS AND TERRAINS; ASSIMILATION, INTEGRATION, AND 'HYGIENIC CITIZENSHIP'; MEDICINE AND MIGRATION IN THE POST-COLONIAL ERA; PART I: TUBERCULOS IS IN BLACK AND WHITE: MEDICINE, MIGRATION, AND RACE IN 'OPEN DOOR' BRITAIN; 1: Suspicions and 'Susceptibility': The Tuberculous Migrant 1948-1955 |
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'KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR CHEST': TUBERCULOSIS AND THE MAJORITY POPULATION, 1948-1958IMPORTING LABOUR, IMPORTING DISEASE: EARLY RESPONSES TO THE INFECTIOUS IMMIGRANT; Interpreting Immigrant Tuberculosis: Initial Positions and Enduring Actors; The Media, 1950-1953; The Ministry (and Whitehall) 1948-1953; The Medical Profession, 1950-1955; SUSCEPTIBLE OR SUSPECT? SEEING TB IN 'COLOUR'; Expert Perspectives; Local Views; Migrant Health and Party Politics; CONCLUSION: RACIALIZING THE TUBERCULOUS MIGRANT; 2: Contained but not Controlled: Public Discontents, International Implications |
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'THIS CONFERENCE VIEWS WITH GREAT CONCERN': THE MINISTRY UNDER PRESSURE, 1956-1957Maintaining Position, Rising Above Race; CONTROL IN THE COLD WAR: THE HUNGARIAN CRISIS; STAC, SUSPECTS, AND SURVEYS: CRACKS IN THE STATUS QUO; Falling Numbers, Rising Suspicions; Immigrant Health and Border Controls: Internationalizing Domestic Health; PUTTING OUT FIRES OR FANNING THE FLAMES? TUBERCULOSIS, 'RACE', AND MEDICALIZATION; Racist, Realist or Race-resistant?; 'A Habit of Inaction'?; RIOTS, 'SUSPECTS', AND THE CAUSES OF CONTROL |
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'YOUR GOVERNMENT MIGHT BE WILLING TO CONSIDER': THE EFFORT TO EXPORT CONTROLPOST-IMPERIAL TENSIONS; Under the Shadow of 'Control'; CONCLUSION; PART II: 'AT ONCE A PERIL TO THE POPULATION': IMMIGRATION, IDENTITY, AND 'CONTROL'; 3: Smallpox, 'Social Threats', and Citizenship, 1961-1966; CLOSING THE 'OPEN DOOR': THE COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRANTS BILL; Opening Salvos: The Debate Before Smallpox; THE 1961-1962 SMALLPOX CRISIS: POX, POLITICS, AND THE BATTLE FOR CONTROL; IMPORTED SMALLPOX: NOVEL OR NORMAL?; SMALLPOX, POLICY, AND THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH |
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'THE KILLER THAT SLIPPED THROUGH THE NET': POPULAR VISIONS OF THE IMMIGRANT/POX'Suspects' and Suspicions: Images and Actualities of Smallpox in Cardiff, South Wales, and Bradford; Cardiff; The Rhondda; 'An Angry City'? The Bradford Outbreak; Lessons from 'Plague City': Vaccination, Assimilation, and the 'Oriental Killer'; CONTROLLING CONTAGION, CONTAINING THE MEDIA: SMALLPOX IN WHITEHALL; 'This is Essentially a Commonwealth Problem': The Ministry of Health Perspective; THE VIEW FROM PAKISTAN; From 'Immigrant Threat' to Domestic Inconvenience: Responding to the Welsh Outbreaks |
| Summary |
'Contagious Communities' casts new light on a period only now attracting significant historical interest. It draws attention to the importance - but also the limitations - of medical knowledge, approaches and professionals in mediating post-war British responses to race, ethnicity, and the emergence of new and distinctive ethnic communities. By presenting a wealth of newly available or previously ignored archival evidence, it interrogates and re-balances the political history of Britain's response to New Commonwealth immigration |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Vendor-supplied metadata |
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Great Britain. National Health Service.
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Great Britain. National Health Service fast |
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Communicable diseases -- Great Britain -- 20th century
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- 20th century
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Communicable Diseases -- history
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Communicable diseases
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056824
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United Kingdom |
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Great Britain
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191038402 |
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0191038407 |
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