Silent Travelers Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace

Name: Silent Travelers Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace
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ISBN: 9780801850967

ISBN-10: 0801850967

ISBN-13: 9780801850967

Edition: 1995

Authors: Alan M. Kraut

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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.452
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