Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Immigration by the Numbers: Rethinking the Immigrant Medical Experience
Part I. Numbers Large: Immigrant Medical Inspection as an Inclusionary Tool
Chapter 1. Immigrants and the New Industrial Economy
Chapter 2. The Function of Medical Inspection: Restriction, Instruction, and Discipline of the Laboring Body
Chapter 3. The Medical Gaze: Science in Industrial-Era America
Part II. Numbers Small: Immigrant Medical Inspection as an Exclusionary Tool
Chapter 4. The Shape of the Line: Immigrant Medical Inspection from Coast to Coast
Chapter 5. At the Borders of Science: Diagnostic Technology at the Intersection of Race, Class, Disease, and Industrial Citizenship
Chapter 6. Drawing the Color Line: Radical Patterns of Medical Certification and Exclusion
Epilogue. The End of the Line: Immigrant Medical Inspection after 1924
Appendix. Note on Data Collection, Cleaning, Coding, and Analysis
Notes
Index