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Author Abel, Emily K., author.

Title Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion : a history of public health and migration to Los Angeles / Emily K. Abel
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-177) and index
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Subject 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
Minorities.
Prejudices.
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Minority Groups
Prejudice
Public Health -- history
minorities.
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Oncology.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
Prejudices
Minorities
Discrimination in medical care
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Diseases
Immigrants -- Medical care
Public health
Tuberculosis
Tuberkulose
Einwanderer
Medizinische Versorgung
Tuberkulose
Einwanderer
Medizinische Versorgung
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Los Angeles https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015141
Subject California -- Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007000028
ISBN 9780813543826
0813543827
9786611244323
6611244328