ISBN:
0520939204
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1429481838
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9780520246492
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9780520939202
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9781429481830
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 279 pages)
Series Statement:
American crossroads 20
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DDC:
362.1/0979494
Keywords:
Geschichte 1879-1939
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues
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MEDICAL / Public Health
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MEDICAL / Health Policy
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HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General
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MEDICAL / Diseases
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MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Asian Americans / Health and hygiene
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Immigrants / Health and hygiene
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Mexican Americans / Health and hygiene
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Public health
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Race relations
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Sociale gezondheidszorg
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Immigranten
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Rassenverhoudingen
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Public Health / history / Los Angeles
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Asian Americans / history / Los Angeles
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Emigration and Immigration / history / Los Angeles
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History, 19th Century / Los Angeles
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History, 20th Century / Los Angeles
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Mexican Americans / history / Los Angeles
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Race Relations / history / Los Angeles
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Einwanderer
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Geschichte
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Medizin
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Immigrants Health and hygiene
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History
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Asian Americans Health and hygiene
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History
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Mexican Americans Health and hygiene
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History
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Public health History
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Asiaten
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Chicanos
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Medizinische Versorgung
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USA
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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Asiaten
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Medizinische Versorgung
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Geschichte 1879-1939
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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Chicanos
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Medizinische Versorgung
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Geschichte 1879-1939
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index
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Interlopers in the land of sunshine : Chinese disease carriers, launderers, and vegetable peddlers -- Caught between discourses of disease, health, and nation : public health attitudes toward Japanese and Mexican laborers in progressive-era Los Angeles -- Institutionalizing public health in ethnic Los Angeles in the 1920s -- "We can no longer ignore the problem of the Mexican" : depression-era public health policies in Los Angeles -- The fight for "health, morality, and decent living standards" : Mexican Americans and the struggle for public housing in 1930s Los Angeles -- Epilogue : genealogies of racial discourses and practices
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Shows how science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Examining the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, this book illustrates the ways health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and define racial groups
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