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100 1 $aFairchild, Amy L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002017787
245 10 $aScience at the borders :$bimmigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force /$cAmy L. Fairchild.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$c2003.
300 $axii, 385 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-376) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction. Immigration by the Numbers: Rethinking the Immigrant Medical Experience --$g1.$tImmigrants and the New Industrial Economy --$g2.$tThe Function of Medical Inspection: Restriction, Instruction, and Discipline of the Laboring Body --$g3.$tThe Medical Gaze: Science in Industrial-Era America --$g4.$tThe Shape of the Line: Immigrant Medical Inspection from Coast to Coast --$g5.$tAt the Borders of Science: Diagnostic Technology at the Intersection of Race, Class, Disease, and Industrial Citizenship --$g6.$tDrawing the Color Line: Racial Patterns of Medical Certification and Exclusion --$tEpilogue. The End of the Line: Immigrant Medical Inspection after 1924 --$gApp.$tNote on Data Collection, Cleaning, Coding, and Analysis.
520 1 $a"In 1891, officers of the U.S. 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, the examinations were soon described by officials as a way of denying entry to applicants who could not work and would therefore be a burden on society. But historian Amy L.
520 8 $aFairchild has unearthed a curious fact about this ubiquitous rite of immigration - it was rarely undertaken to exclude immigrants.".
520 8 $a"In Science at the Borders, Fairchild retells the immigrant story, offering a new interpretation of the medical exam and the role it played in the lives of the 25 million immigrants who entered the United States. She argues that the vast assembly line of flesh and bone served as a kind of initiation into the life of the new working class, one that would introduce men and women from the villages of eastern and southern Europe and elsewhere to the norms and conventions of the factory floor.
520 8 $aWhat the overwhelming majority of immigrants endured at Ellis Island and other entry points to the United States, according to Fairchild, was part of a process of induction into American industrial society.".
520 8 $a"Against this backdrop Fairchild also explores the southern border of the United States and the West Coast where the exam did, in fact, serve to exclude. Throughout, Fairchild conveys the humanity of the story, offering detailed accounts of individual immigrants confronting a large scientific and medical bureaucracy."--BOOK JACKET.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bPublic Health Service.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79096730
650 0 $aImmigrants$xMedical examinations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140042
650 0 $aLabor policy$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106427
650 12 $aEmigration and Immigration.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004641
650 12 $aPublic Health.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011634
650 22 $aHealth Policy.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006291
650 22 $aEmployment.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004651
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
651 0 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140040
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