Doctors at the Borders

Immigration and the Rise of Public Health

AvMichael C. LeMay

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

A unique resource for the general public and students interested in immigration and public health, this book presents a comprehensive history of public health and draws 10 key lessons for current immigration and health policymakers.The period of 1820 to 1920 was one of mass migration to the United States from other nations of origin. This century-long period served to develop modern medicine with the acceptance of the germ theory of disease and the lessons learned from how immigration officials and doctors of the United States Marine Hospital Service (USMHS) confronted six major pandemic diseases: bubonic plague, cholera, influenza, smallpox, trachoma, and yellow fever. This book provides a narrative history that relates how immigration doctors of the USMHS developed devices and procedures that greatly influenced the development of public health. It illuminates the distinct links between immigration policy and public health policy and distinguishes ten key lessons learned nearly 100 years ago that are still relevant to coping with current public health policy issues.By re-examining the experiences of doctors at three U.S. immigration/quarantine stations—Angel Island, Ellis Island, and New Orleans—in the early 19th century through the early 20th century, Doctors at the Borders: Immigration and the Rise of Public Health analyzes the successes and failures of these medical practitioners' pioneering efforts to battle pandemic diseases and identifies how the hard-won knowledge from that relatively primitive period still informs how public health policy should be written today. Readers will understand how the USMHS doctors helped shape the very development of U.S. public health and modern scientific medicine, and see the need for international cooperation in the face of today's global threats of pandemic diseases.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-07-29
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:652 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781440840241

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Folkhälsa och hälsopedagogik inom Medicin
Hälso- och sjukvård inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Michael C. LeMay, PhD, is professor emeritus of political science at California State University-San Bernardino (CSUSB), CA.

Recensioner i media

This is a useful book that the general reader can appreciate and policy makers will find useful. Good notes, bibliography, and glossary. Summing Up: Recommended. All public health library collections.

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Age of Mass Migration, 1820–1920The Old Immigrant Wave, 1820–1880The New Immigrant Wave, 1880–1920Reaction to Change—the Nativist Movement and Growing RestrictionismPublic Policy Reactions to Mass MigrationConclusion: Closing the Golden Door2. The Period of PandemicsNotable Epidemic/Pandemic Diseases and North American ImmigrationGerm Theory and Medical Science Developments to Cope with PandemicsConclusion3. The Angel Island Quarantine/Immigration Station, 1891–1946A Brief History of the Angel Island Quarantine/Immigration StationThe Immigration StationCoping with Epidemics and PandemicsSpreading InnovationsConclusion4. The Ellis Island StationA Brief History of Ellis Island Quarantine StationCoping with EpidemicsSpreading InnovationsConclusion5. The New Orleans StationA Brief History of the City and Immigration to and through New OrleansThe New Orleans StationCoping with Epidemics and Pandemics at New OrleansSpreading InnovationsConclusion6. Ten Lessons LearnedLesson 1: A Question of When, Not IfLesson 2: Political Exigencies Tend to Trump Medical AdviceLesson 3: Preventive Medicine Is BestLesson 4: Mission Complexity Hampers Effective ResponseLesson 5: As Man Adapts to Nature, Nature Adapts to ManLesson 6: We Have Met the Enemy, and He Is UsLesson 7: The Special Threat of BioterrorismLesson 8: The Importance of an Early Warning SystemLesson 9: The Necessity for International Cooperation to Face a Global ThreatLesson 10: Plan to Succeed, or Plan on FailingConclusionGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex