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Typhoid Mary: captive to the public's health
Judith Walzer Leavitt
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Frontmatter
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List of Illustrations (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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Prologue (page xvii)
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INTRODUCTION "A Special Guest of the City of New York" (page 1)
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CHAPTER ONE "The Rigorous Spirit of Science" The Triumph of Bacteriology (page 14)
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CHAPTER TWO "Extraordinary and Even Arbitrary Powers" Public Health Policy (page 39)
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CHAPTER THREE "A Menace to the Community" Law and the Limits of Liberty (page 70)
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CHAPTER FOUR "She Walked More Like a Man than a Woman" Social Expectations and Prejudice (page 96)
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CHAPTER FIVE "This Human Culture Tube" Media and the Cultural Construction of "Typhoid Mary" (page 126)
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CHAPTER SIX "Banished Like a Leper" Loss of Liberty and Personal Misfortune (page 162)
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CHAPTER SEVEN "Misbegotten Mary" The Stories Continue (page 202)
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CONCLUSION A "Square Deal" for Public Health (page 231)
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Events in Mary Mallon's Life (page 255)
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Notes (page 256)
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Credits (page 321)
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Index (page 323)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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
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