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Doctors at the Borders - Immigration and the Rise of Public Health (Hardcover)
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Doctors at the Borders - Immigration and the Rise of Public Health (Hardcover)
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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. Addresses many "hot topics" regarding
public health, such as how to best cope with mass migration of
legal and illegal immigrants; concern about pandemics like the
Ebola crisis in West Africa, the Enterovirus-D68 outbreak, and the
recent avian flu and swine flu epidemics; and the threat of
bioterrorism within the United States Examines the history of the
mass migration of the 1820-1920 era to provide insight into how to
better cope with mass migration and the public health threats of
today Demonstrates how more lives are saved through public health
campaigns than any other approach to medicine, and that only a
national approach to public health can adequately thwart the
threats of pandemic disease to our entire country Presents
information derived from original research from records at the
National Archives and Records Administration and at the National
Museum of Health and Medicine
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