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

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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
Main Author: Abel, Emily K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medizinische Versorgung
Einwanderer
Tuberkulose
Tuberculosis.
Public health.
Immigrants > Medical care.
Immigrants > Diseases.
Ethnic relations.
Discrimination in medical care.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Oncology.
minorities.
Prejuges.
Minorites.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Sante publique > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sante publique > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Discrimination dans les soins medicaux > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Discrimination dans les soins medicaux > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Tuberculose > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Tuberculose > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Electronic books.
Public Health > history
Prejudice
Minority Groups
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary > history
Prejudices.
Minorities.
Public health > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Public health > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Discrimination in medical care > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in medical care > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Medical care > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > Medical care > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Diseases > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Immigrants > Diseases > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Tuberculosis > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Tuberculosis > California > Los Angeles > History > 19th century.
Los Angeles, Calif.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813543826

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