Silent Travelers

Author: Alan M. Kraut
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0801850967
Category: Medical

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace

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. Download Silent Travelers medical books for free.
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 the history of medicine, Silent Travelers is also a deeply Get Silent Travelers our bestseller medical books.

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Silent Travelers vividly describes these and many other episodes of medicalized prejudice and analyzes their impact on public health policy and beyond The first synthesis of immigration history and the history of medicine, Silent Travelers is also a deeply

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