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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Abel, Emily K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
Series:Critical issues in health and medicine.
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