I agree with Sheba: prejudice towards immigrants definitely played a role in how diseases were treated and attacked. As the satirical interview on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart showed, immigrants are often unnecessarily blamed for the spread of diseases. In the case of the interview, many clips showed had newscasters discussing leprosy and other…[Read more]
In reply to - ishaknobel wrote a new post, Polio and Its Reach Across Race and Class, on the site Seminar III: Urban Epidemics Race and class are both factors that have greatly influenced the history of the U.S. The country has […]↧