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Author Abel, Emily K.

Title Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion [electronic resource] : a history of public health and migration to Los Angeles / Emily K. Abel.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 188 p. : ill.
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-177) and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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 century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780813541754 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813541751 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813541761 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081354176X (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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