| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. Critical Issues in Health and Medicine. By Emily K. Abel. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. x + 188 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $23.95, paper.)

In a compact and accessible text, Emily Abel offers an introduction to the politics of public health in Los Angeles between the late-nineteenth century and World War II. In particular, Abel explores how tuberculosis emerged as a primary concern among public health officials and provides a thoughtful examination of the various programs for cure and containment of the TB afflicted. At the center of the story are key public health officials that shaped the discourse of TB as a socially and fiscally expensive communicable disease. Among the most influential public health officials was Edythe Tate-Thompson who directed the Bureau of Tuberculosis in the California State Board of Health. Rooted in medical science in communicable diseases and eugenicist-inflected social theory of inferior peoples, Tate-Thompson and others strongly advocated exclusion of the TB afflicted. More than an effort of containment, Abel argues, Tate-Thompson led a campaign for various forms of exclusion ranging from deportation to banishment in distant sanatoriums.

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