Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace"
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Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace"
（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed
- : pbk
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Originally published in a hardcover ed. by Basic Books, 1994
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-345) and index
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This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows how immigrant groups have been regularly slandered as carriers of particular diseases.
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