Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-345) and index.
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.
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