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1 online resource (x, 188 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-177) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Tuberculosis. |
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California -- Los Angeles. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Immigrants -- Diseases -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Immigrants -- Diseases. |
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Immigrants. |
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Immigrants -- Diseases -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Immigrants -- Medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Immigrants -- Medical care. |
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Immigrants -- Medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Discrimination in medical care. |
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Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Public health. |
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Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history. |
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History, 19th Century. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Minority Groups. |
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Prejudice. |
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Public Health -- history. |
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Los Angeles. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Abel, Emily K. Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007 9780813541754 (DLC) 2007000028 (OCoLC)77766893 |
| ISBN |
9780813543826 (electronic book) |
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0813543827 (electronic book) |
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1281244325 |
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9781281244321 |
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9780813541754 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813541751 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813541761 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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081354176X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
