Emily K. Abel is a professor in the school of public health and women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of several books, including Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (Rutgers University Press).

Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion is a thorough and thoroughly engrossing account of the social and political response to tuberculosis in the American West. This well-written, highly accessible yet scholarly and authoritative account is essential for any reader interested in disease, race, public health, and medicine in America. It is a superb addition to the literature. - Amy L. Fairchild (author of Science at the Borders:Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping o) Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion is a thorough and thoroughly engrossing account of the social and political response to tuberculosis in the American West. This well-written, highly accessible yet scholarly and authoritative account is essential for any reader interested in disease, race, public health, and medicine in America. It is a superb addition to the literature. - Amy L. Fairchild (author of Science at the Borders:Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping o) An excellent portrait of the contradictions and exclusions inherent in early twentieth-century 'public' health. (American Historical Review) The politics of human movement, citizenship and access to healthcare remains high on the agenda, making this kind of recent history a critical resource for policy makers. (Social History of Medicine) Abel has written a fascinating account of TB in LA. The book is written an a clear, informative style, and will provide a historically rich resource for seminars in medical anthropology. (Medical Anthropology Quarterly)

• Pestilence in the promised landStrategies of exclusionCreating a tuberculosis program"Outsiders"Slashing services in the Great DepressionExpelling Mexicans and Filipinos"Agitation over the migrant issue"Fighting TB in Black Los Angeles

Emily K. Abel is a professor in the school of public health and women's studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author and editor of several books, including Suffering in the Land of Sunshine: A Los Angeles Illness Narrative (Rutgers University Press).

Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion is a thorough and thoroughly engrossing account of the social and political response to tuberculosis in the American West. This well-written, highly accessible yet scholarly and authoritative account is essential for any reader interested in disease, race, public health, and medicine in America. It is a superb addition to the literature. - Amy L. Fairchild (author of Science at the Borders:Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping o) Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion is a thorough and thoroughly engrossing account of the social and political response to tuberculosis in the American West. This well-written, highly accessible yet scholarly and authoritative account is essential for any reader interested in disease, race, public health, and medicine in America. It is a superb addition to the literature. - Amy L. Fairchild (author of Science at the Borders:Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping o) An excellent portrait of the contradictions and exclusions inherent in early twentieth-century 'public' health. (American Historical Review) The politics of human movement, citizenship and access to healthcare remains high on the agenda, making this kind of recent history a critical resource for policy makers. (Social History of Medicine) Abel has written a fascinating account of TB in LA. The book is written an a clear, informative style, and will provide a historically rich resource for seminars in medical anthropology. (Medical Anthropology Quarterly)

• Pestilence in the promised landStrategies of exclusionCreating a tuberculosis program"Outsiders"Slashing services in the Great DepressionExpelling Mexicans and Filipinos"Agitation over the migrant issue"Fighting TB in Black Los Angeles