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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion : A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Abel, Emily K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.