| Description |
xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Immigration by the numbers: rethinking the immigrant medical experience -- Part I: Numbers large: immigrant medical inspection as an inclusionary tool -- 1. Immigrants and the new industrial economy -- 2. The function of medical inspection: restriction, instruction, and discipline of the laboring body -- 3. The medical gaze: science in industrial-era America -- Part II: Numbers small: immigrant medical inspection as an exclusionary tool -- 4. The shape of the line: immigrant medical inspection from coast to coast -- 5. At the borders of science: diagnostic technology at the intersection of race, class, disease, and industrial citizenship -- 6. Drawing the color line: racial patterns of medical certification and exclusion -- The end of the line: immigrant medical inspection after 1924. |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Medical examinations -- United States.
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Immigrants -- Medical examinations. |
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United States. |
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United States. Public Health Service.
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United States. Public Health Service. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Labor policy -- United States.
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Labor policy. |
| ISBN |
0801870801 alkaline paper |
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