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About Alan M. Kraut
See more books from this AuthorHe demonstrates how health care became a cultural battleground involving the home, the hospital, and the corner drugstore as folk healers and midwives met opposition from physicians and home health nurses, and as quackery thrived.
| Read Full Review of Silent Travelers: Germs, Gene...In this broadly researched study of the relation of immigration to medical care, Kraut ( Huddled Masses ) argues that immigrants were not themselves primarily responsible for spreading epidemic diseases.
| Read Full Review of Silent Travelers: Germs, Gene...Defending the rights of all immigrants, he distinguishes the real public health problems posed by disease transmitters such as Mary Malone from the voices of prejudice that exploit our fear of disease for their propaganda war against America's tradition of welcoming strangers.
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