Regulating the Dead to Protect the Living: Chinese Immigrants, Religion, and the Bio-Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth Century San Francisco
The challenge posed by Wong Yung Quy, a Chinese immigrant living in San Francisco in the 1870s, to a law regulating the exhumation of human remains on the basis of religious freedom reveals the subordination of religious practice to public health concerns and regulation in nineteenth century Califor...
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| Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_migr_etd-7440 |