Silent Travelers

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

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.
"Silent Travelers Germs, Genes, and the ""Immigrant Menace"", ISBN-13: 9780801850967, ISBN-10: 0801850967"
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

Silent Travelers

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace ISBN :9780801850967 Title :Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace Authors :Kraut, Alan M.Binding :Paperback Publisher :The Johns Hopkins University Press Publication Date :Mar 1 1995 Edition : Condition :Used - Acceptable Payment Due to software limitations we only accept PayPal for eBay orders. Please see payment details below. Shipping Multiple shipping options are available for this item. Select the shipping option th

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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