Silent Travelers Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace"

ISBN-10: 0465078230

ISBN-13: 9780465078233

Edition: 1994

Authors: Alan M. Kraut

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"Epidemics and immigrants have suffered a lethal association in the public mind, from the Irish in New York wrongly blamed for the cholera epidemic of 1832 and Chinese in San Francisco vilified for causing the bubonic plague in 1900, to Haitians in Miami stigmatized as AIDS carriers in the 1980s. Silent Travelers vividly describes these and many other episodes of medicalized prejudice and analyzes their impact on public health policy and beyond. The book shows clearly how the equation of disease with outsiders and illness with genetic inferiority broadly affected not only immigration policy and health care but even the workplace and schools." "The first synthesis of immigration history and…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Basic Books
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Preface
Introduction: The Double Helix of Health and Fear
"The Breath of Other People Killed Them": First Encounters
"A Scourge, a Rod in the Hand of God": Epidemics and the Irish Mid-Century
"Proper Precautions": Searching for Illness on Ellis Island
A Plague of Nativism: The Cases of Chick Gin and "Typhoid Mary"
"That Is the American Way. And in America You Should Do as Americans Do": Italian Customs, American Standards
Gezunthayt iz besser vi Krankhayt: Fighting the Stigma of the "Jewish Disease"
"The Old Inquisition Had Its Rack and Thumbscrews": Immigrant Health and the American Workplace
"There Could Also Be Magic in Barbarian Medicine": American Nurses, Physicians, and Quacks
"East Side Parents Storm the Schools": Public Schools and Public Health
"Viruses and Bacteria Don't Ask for a Green Card": New Immigrants and Old Fears
Appendix I: Classification of Excludable Medical Conditions According to the 1903 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants
Appendix II: Classification of Excludable Medical Conditions According to the 1917 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants
Notes
Credits
Index
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