Typhoid Mary
Subtitle: captive to the public's health
By: Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Typhoid Mary, d. 1938; Typhoid fever -- New York (State) -- New York -- History; Quarantine -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-320) and index.
Table of contents: title: A special guest of the City of New York; title: The rigorous spirit of science: the triumph of bacteriology; title: Extraordinary and even arbitrary powers: public health policy; title: A menace to the community: law and the limits of liberty; title: She walked more like a man than a woman: social expectations and prejudice; title: This human culture tube: media and the cultural construction of "Typhoid Mary"; title: Banished like a leper: loss of liberty and personal misfortune; title: Misbegotten Mary: the stories continue; title: A square deal for public health; title: Events in Mary Mallon's life.