Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force by Amy L. Fairchild

Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force

Amy L. Fairchild

408 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In 1891, officers of the United States Public Health Service began examining immigrants at the nation's borders for "loathsome and dangerous contagious diseases." First introduced as a means to screen out those who posed a threat to public health,...

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