Silent travelers: germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace"

Double helix of health and fear

Breath of other people killed them: first encounters

Scourge, a rod in the hand of God: epidemics and the Irish mid-century

Proper precautions: searching for illness on Ellis Island

Plague of nativism: the cases of chick gin and typhoid mary

That is the American way. And in America you should do as Americans do: Italian customs, American standards

Gezunthayt iz besser vi Krankhayt: fighting the stigma of the Jewish disease

Old inquisition had its rack and thumbscrews: immigrant health and the American workplace

There could also be magic in barbarian medicine: American nurses, physicians and quacks

East side parents storm the schools: public schools and public health

Viruses and bacteria don't ask for a green card: new immigrants and old fears

Classification of excludable medical conditions according to the 1903 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants

Classification of excludable medical conditions according to the 1917 Book of Instructions for the Medical Inspection of Immigrants.