Tuberculosis and the politics of exclusion
Subtitle: a history of public health and migration to Los Angeles
By: Emily K. Abel.
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813541754; 9780813541761
Subjects: Tuberculosis -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century; Immigrants -- Diseases -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century; Immigrants -- Medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century; Discrimination in medical care -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century; Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- history -- Los Angeles; History, 19th Century -- Los Angeles; History, 20th Century -- Los Angeles; Minority Groups -- Los Angeles; Prejudice -- Los Angeles; Public Health -- history -- Los Angeles; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pestilence in the promised land; title: Strategies of exclusion; title: Creating a tuberculosis program; title: "Outsiders"; title: Slashing services in the Great Depression; title: Expelling Mexicans and Filipinos; title: "Agitation over the migrant issue"; title: Fighting TB in Black Los Angeles.