 | Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion Subjects: Public Health; Prejudice; Minority Groups; History 20th Century; History 19th Century; Tuberculosis Pulmonary; Public health; Public health; Discrimination in medical care; Discrimination in medical care; Immigrants; Immigrants; Immigrants; Immigrants; Tuberculosis; ; Winner of the 2008 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association and Nominated for the 2008 William H. Welch Medal, AAHM 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. Emily K. Abel is a professor in the school of public health and women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of several books, including Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (Rutgers University Press). |
