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Typhoid Mary: captive to the public's health

Judith Walzer Leavitt
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Prologue (page xvii)
  • INTRODUCTION "A Special Guest of the City of New York" (page 1)
  • CHAPTER ONE "The Rigorous Spirit of Science" The Triumph of Bacteriology (page 14)
  • CHAPTER TWO "Extraordinary and Even Arbitrary Powers" Public Health Policy (page 39)
  • CHAPTER THREE "A Menace to the Community" Law and the Limits of Liberty (page 70)
  • CHAPTER FOUR "She Walked More Like a Man than a Woman" Social Expectations and Prejudice (page 96)
  • CHAPTER FIVE "This Human Culture Tube" Media and the Cultural Construction of "Typhoid Mary" (page 126)
  • CHAPTER SIX "Banished Like a Leper" Loss of Liberty and Personal Misfortune (page 162)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN "Misbegotten Mary" The Stories Continue (page 202)
  • CONCLUSION A "Square Deal" for Public Health (page 231)
  • Events in Mary Mallon's Life (page 255)
  • Notes (page 256)
  • Credits (page 321)
  • Index (page 323)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JSocH 31.4 (Summer, 1998): 955-957 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3789311
WRB 14.2 (Nov. 1996): 8-9 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4022556
JAH 84.1 (Jun. 1997): 271-272 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2952837
AHR 103.3 (Jun. 1998): 987-988 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650729
JPHP 20.3 (1999): 375-379 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3343413
BHM 71.3 (Fall 1997): 547-549 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/summary/v071/71.3br_leavitt.html
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Published: c1996
Publisher: Beacon Press
Copyright Holder: Beacon Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780807095591 (ebook)
  • 9780807021026 (hardcover)
  • 9780807021033 (paper)
Subject
  • American: 1900-present
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