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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion

Emily K. Abel

2007

Overview

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. Abel's revealing account provides a critical lens through which to view both the contemporary debate about immigration and the U.S. response to the emergent global tuberculosis epidemic.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / Califonia / California / Discrimination in medical care / Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century / Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century / disease / Diseases / Dust Bowl refugees / Ethnic relations / Evidence-Based Medicine / exclusionary measures / global tuberculosis epidemic / Health policy / health resort / Health Sciences / History / History, 19th Century / History, 19th Century -- Los Angeles / History, 20th Century / History, 20th Century -- Los Angeles / Immigrants / 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 / Immigration / immigration debate / Los Angeles / Los Angeles (Calif.) / Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century / Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century / MEDICAL / MEDICAL / Evidence-Based Medicine / MEDICAL / General / Medical care / Mexicans / migration / Minority Groups / Minority Groups -- Los Angeles / Prejudice / Prejudice -- Los Angeles / Public health / Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century / Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century / Public Health -- history -- Los Angeles / public health officials / public health policies / publicists / Refugees / social history / transcontinental railroad / Tuberculosis / Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century / Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century / Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history -- Los Angeles / U.S.A
• ISBN: 0813541751, 9780813541754, 081354176X, 9780813541761