Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion [electronic resource] : a history of public health and migration to Los Angeles / Emily K. Abel.
By: Abel, Emily K.
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Series: Critical issues in health and medicine: Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007Description: x, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century | Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century | Immigrants -- Diseases -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century | Immigrants -- Diseases -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century | Immigrants -- Medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century | Immigrants -- Medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century | Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century | Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century | Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century | Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.