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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Pages
331

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Subjects
History, Quarantine, Typhoid fever, Fièvre typhoïde, Quarantaine, Histoire, Tyfus, Public health, united states, Public health, history, Irish, united states, Typhoid mary, Typhoid mary , 1869-1938, Quarantine--history, Typhoid fever--history, Typhoid fever--new york (state)--new york--history, Quarantine--new york (state)--new york--history, Tuberculosis, Public health, Communicable diseases, Coercion, Ra644.t8 l43 1996, Wc 270 l439t 1996, 614.5/112/097471
People
Typhoid Mary (d. 1938), Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary (m. 1938)
Places
New York (State), New York, New York (État)

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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
2014, Beacon Press
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Typhoid Mary
July 31, 1997, Beacon Press
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Typhoid Mary: captive to the public's health
1996, Beacon Press
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Typhoid Mary: captive to the public's health
1996, Beacon Press
Hardcover in English
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Table of Contents

A special guest of the City of New York
The rigorous spirit of science: the triumph of bacteriology
Extraordinary and even arbitrary powers: public health policy
A menace to the community: law and the limits of liberty
She walked more like a man than a woman: social expectations and prejudice
This human culture tube: media and the cultural construction of "Typhoid Mary"
Banished like a leper: loss of liberty and personal misfortune
Misbegotten Mary: the stories continue
A square deal for public health
Events in Mary Mallon's life.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-320) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
614.5/112/097471
Library of Congress
RA644.T8 L43 1996, RA644.T8L43 1996

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xviii, 331 p. :
Number of pages
331

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL806852M
Internet Archive
typhoidmarycapti00leav
ISBN 10
0807021024
LCCN
95043486
OCLC/WorldCat
33334918
Library Thing
168392
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1159835

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