Science at the borders : immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force / Amy L. Fairchild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairchild, Amy L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Medical examinations--United States.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--Medical examinations.

United States.

United States. Public Health Service.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration.

Labor policy--United States.

Labor policy.

Physical Description:

xii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"A thoughtful discussion of a crucial period in the development of the American labor force and the effort of immigration policy to influence its composition when the level of immigration itself was uncontrolled." -- Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Contents:

Introduction: Immigration by the Numbers: Rethinking the Immigrant Medical Experience 1

Part I. Numbers Large: Immigrant Medical Inspection as an Inclusionary Tool

1. Immigrants and the New Industrial Economy 23

2. The Function of Medical Inspection: Restriction, Instruction, and Discipline of the Laboring Body 53

3. The Medical Gaze: Science in Industrial-Era America 83

Part II. Numbers Small: Immigrant Medical Inspection as an Exclusionary Tool

4. The Shape of the Line: Immigrant Medical Inspection from Coast to Coast 119

5. At the Borders of Science: Diagnostic Technology at the Intersection of Race, Class, Disease, and Industrial Citizenship 160

6. Drawing the Color Line: Racial Patterns of Medical Certification and Exclusion 190

Epilogue: The End of the Line: Immigrant Medical Inspection after 1924 253

Appendix Note on Data Collection, Cleaning, Coding, and Analysis 277.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801870801

OCLC:

49699445