| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. By Emily K. Abel. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. xii, 188 pp. Cloth, $68.00, ISBN 978-0-8135-4175-4. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8135-4176-1.)

In this well-researched and engaging book, Emily K. Abel outlines the transition of Los Angeles from a booster town vying for the "invalid trade" in the late nineteenth century to a growing city enacting policies to exclude unwanted tuberculars seeking warm weather and better health on the West Coast. In the first chapter, she discusses the beginnings of a debate over whether claims of Los Angeles's salubrity should target everyone or just some, especially when tramps came to town looking for cures for their tuberculosis but had no money to pay for them. Women were also less likely to make the trip to Los Angeles for a cure, unless they traveled with their families or were the caretakers for ill husbands. By the first decade of the twentieth century, appeals to consumptives to come to Los Angeles had waned significantly both because the climate cure was less emphasized and because public health authorities did not want to deal with disproportionate numbers of infectious individuals.

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