Friday, January 9, 2004
2:30–4:30 p.m.
38. Sterilizing the Welcome Mat: Immigration, Eugenics, and Contagion in North America, 1880–1925
Omni Shoreham, Governor’s Conference RoomJoint session with the Canadian Historical Association
| Chair: | Alan Kraut, American University |
| Papers: | Epidemics
of Immigration: The Contagion
of Class and the Perils of
Degeneration Nations,
Empires, and the Disruptions of
Migration: Collaborative U.S.,
Canadian, and British Health
Screening
and South Asian Migrants A
Question of Public Health:
Immigration, Eugenics, and
American Psychiatry,
1880–1925 |
| Comment: | Howard Markel, University of Michigan |
