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Fairchild, Amy L,

Science at the borders : immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force / Amy L. Fairchild. - xii, 385 páginas : ilustraciones

Incluye bibliografía.

Immigration by the numbers: rethinking the immigrant medical experience -- Part I: Numbers large: immigrant medical inspection as an inclusionary tool -- 1. Immigrants and the new industrial economy -- 2. The function of medical inspection: restriction, instruction, and discipline of the laboring body -- 3. The medical gaze: science in industrial-era America -- Part II: Numbers small: immigrant medical inspection as an exclusionary tool -- 4. The shape of the line: immigrant medical inspection from coast to coast -- 5. At the borders of science: diagnostic technology at the intersection of race, class, disease, and industrial citizenship -- 6. Drawing the color line: racial patterns of medical certification and exclusion -- The end of the line: immigrant medical inspection after 1924.

ISBN: 0801870801

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Emigración e inmigración--Examinación médica--Estados Unidos.
Política laboral--Estados Unidos.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Estados Unidos--Emigración e inmigración.

Dewey Class. No.: 362.108691 / F165s 2003