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- catalog abstract "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, 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 Fairchild has unearthed a curious fact about this ubiquitous rite of immigration--it was rarely undertaken to exclude immigrants. In this book, the author 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 US. 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 Europe and elsewhere to the norms and conventions of the factory floor. What the overwhelming majority of immigrants endured at Ellis Island and other entry points to the United States was, according to Fairchild, part of a process of induction into American industrial society.".
- catalog contributor b12847194.
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "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, 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 Fairchild has unearthed a curious fact about this ubiquitous rite of immigration--it was rarely undertaken to exclude immigrants. In this book, the author 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 US. 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 Europe and elsewhere to the norms and conventions of the factory floor. What the overwhelming majority of immigrants endured at Ellis Island and other entry points to the United States was, according to Fairchild, part of a process of induction into American industrial society.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 385 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801870801 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2003 I-030".
- catalog subject "362.1/086/91 21".
- catalog subject "Communicable Disease Control United States History.".
- catalog subject "Communicable Disease Control history United States.".
- catalog subject "Communicable Disease Control history".
- catalog subject "Emigration and Immigration United States.".
- catalog subject "Emigration and Immigration".
- catalog subject "Immigrants Medical examinations United States.".
- catalog subject "Labor policy United States.".
- catalog subject "RA448.5.I44 F35 2003".
- catalog subject "United States. Public Health Service.".
- catalog subject "WA 11 AA1 F165s 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Science at the borders : immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force / Amy L. Fairchild.".
- catalog type "text".