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List of illustrations | |
Author's note | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Facing tuberculosis | p. 13 |
Bubonic plague visits San Francisco's Chinatown | p. 47 |
The rabbi with trachoma : the view from Ellis Island | p. 79 |
Lice, typhus, and riots on the Texas-Mexico border | p. 111 |
No one's idea of a tropical paradise : Haitian immigrants and AIDS | p. 141 |
Sounding the cholera alarm in Detroit | p. 177 |
Epilogue : "public health is purchasable" | p. 205 |
Notes | p. 215 |
Index | p. 253 |
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