01336pab a2200169 454500008004000000100001900040245013200059260000900191300001500200362001200215520079600227650003401023650003201057650001601089700002701105773003401132180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMarkel, Howard  aWhich face? Whose Nation?: immigration, public health and the construction of disease at America's ports and borders, 1891-1928  c1999  ap.1314-331  aJun-Jul  aThis article examines medical inspections of immigrants arriving to U.S. ports and borders from the period 1891 to 1928. Comparing the activities of the U.S. Public Health Service at four immigration stations, the authors emphasize the importance of regional differences in the history of immigration and public health. In addition, they argue that categories of medical exclusion emerged in conjunction with early-20th-century attitudes toward skin color and nationality, increasing stringent citizenship laws, and immigrant groups' varying relationships to the labor market. Finally, the authors argue that medical labels became more flexible over time, moving from clearly infectious and quarantinable diseases to more chronic conditions of physical and/or mental disability. - Reproduced  aPublic health - United States  aImmigration - United States  aImmigration  aStern, Alexandra Minna  aAmerican Behavioral Scientist