TY - BOOK AU - Alan M Kraut TI - Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" SN - 0801850967 U1 - 614.40869 Al118 S PY - 1994/// CY - London PB - The Johns Hopkings University Press KW - Medical policy KW - Emigration and immigration--Government policy KW - Immigrants--Health and hygiene--Government policy N1 - This study traces the American tradition of the suspicion of immigrant populations spreading disease. From the cholera outbreak of the 1930s to the associations of Haitians and AIDS, the author shows how immigrant groups have been regularly slandered as carriers of particular diseases. ER -