Book ID: CBB000101127

Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (2001)

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Shah, Nayan (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xiv + 384 pp., illus., notes, bibl., index
Language: English

Description Describes how the Chinese went from being outsiders in epidemiological and sexual terms to members of the mainstream during the late nineteenth and early twenties centuries.


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Review Lord, Alexandra M. (2002) Review of "Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (p. 505). unapi

Review Tong, Benson (2002) Review of "Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown". Western Historical Quarterly (p. 500). unapi

Review Sutphen, Molly P. (2005) Review of "Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

Review Wong, K. Scott (2002) Review of "Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown". Social History of Medicine (p. 363). unapi

Essay Review Raimondo, Meredith (2004) Difference, Disease, and Democracy. Radical History Review (pp. 87-94). unapi

Review Bashford, Alison (2003) Review of "Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 435). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ji-Hye Shin
Kathryn Olivarius
Braje, Todd J.
Junaidi
Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun
Wray, Matt
Concepts
Medicine
Epidemics
Communicable diseases
Medicine and race
Medicine and society
Public health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
East Asia
Indonesia
Spain
South Africa
Institutions
United States. Office of Indian Affairs
University of Toronto
Henry Phipps Institute, Philadelphia
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