Reckoning With “Corporeal and Mental Disabilities”: The Bureaucracy of Immigrant Disease Management in Early-to-Mid Nineteenth Century America

Authors

Vivek K. Rallabandi, Gettysburg CollegeFollow

Class Year

2025

Document Type

Student Research Paper

Date of Creation

Spring 2023

Department 1

History

Abstract

This paper explores how the American bureaucratic apparatus during the early-to-mid nineteenth century dealt with immigrants who carried risks of physical and mental illness. Though previous studies have discretely dealt with physical and mental illnesses that immigrants during this period carried, this paper takes an integrated approach, arguing that these two elements should be viewed in conjunction with one another.

Comments

Written for HIST 343: The Early Republic

Copyright Note

This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Recommended Citation

Rallabandi, Vivek K., "Reckoning With “Corporeal and Mental Disabilities”: The Bureaucracy of Immigrant Disease Management in Early-to-Mid Nineteenth Century America" (2023). Student Publications. 1165.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/1165