Silent travelers :
germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" /
Alan M. Kraut.
| Main Creator: | |
|---|---|
| Contributors: | |
| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published / Created: |
New York, NY :
BasicBooks,
c1994.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-345) and index. Physical description: xiv, 369 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0465078230 : |
Table of Contents:
Double helix of health and fear
Breath of other people killed them: first encounters
Scourge, a rod in the hand of God: epidemics and the Irish mid-century
Proper precautions: searching for illness on Ellis Island
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
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
Classification of excludable medical conditions according to the 1903 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants
Classification of excludable medical conditions according to the 1917 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants.
Double helix of health and fear
Breath of other people killed them: first encounters
Scourge, a rod in the hand of God: epidemics and the Irish mid-century
Proper precautions: searching for illness on Ellis Island
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
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
Classification of excludable medical conditions according to the 1903 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants
Classification of excludable medical conditions according to the 1917 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants.