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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2007]
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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.