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- catalog abstract ""In this book, historian Judith Walzer Leavitt tells the remarkable story of Mary Mallon, the woman known as "Typhoid Mary." Combining social history with biography, Leavitt brings to life early-twentieth-century New York City, a world of strict class divisions and prejudice against immigrants and women. She re-creates the excitement of the early days of microbiology and explores the conflicting perspectives of journalists, public health officials, the law, and Mary Mallon herself." "Mary Mallon was the first healthy carrier of typhoid to be carefully traced in North America, but there were other healthy carriers - over 400 in New York City alone by the 1930s - whose treatment was much less harsh. Why did Mallon's case turn out as it did? As Leavitt shows, the answers have to do with popular prejudices as well as with the legal dimensions of Mallon's case. By exploring the many contexts for Mallon's experience, Leavitt provides a rich and many-layered chronicle of a woman's personal tragedy and a society's dilemma. She also explores the continuing cultural significance of Typhoid Mary, describing the ways Mallon's story has been reinterpreted in fiction, drama, and historians' narratives up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9433243.
- catalog coverage "New York City.".
- catalog coverage "United States.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""In this book, historian Judith Walzer Leavitt tells the remarkable story of Mary Mallon, the woman known as "Typhoid Mary." Combining social history with biography, Leavitt brings to life early-twentieth-century New York City, a world of strict class divisions and prejudice against immigrants and women. She re-creates the excitement of the early days of microbiology and explores the conflicting perspectives of journalists, public health officials, the law, and Mary Mallon herself." "Mary Mallon was the first healthy carrier of typhoid to be carefully traced in North America, but there were other healthy carriers - over 400 in New York City alone by the 1930s - whose treatment was much less harsh. Why did Mallon's case turn out as it did? As Leavitt shows, the answers have to do with popular prejudices as well as with the legal dimensions of Mallon's case. By exploring the many contexts for Mallon's experience, Leavitt provides a rich and many-layered chronicle of a woman's personal tragedy and a society's dilemma. She also explores the continuing cultural significance of Typhoid Mary, describing the ways Mallon's story has been reinterpreted in fiction, drama, and historians' narratives up to the present."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-320) and index.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 331 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807021024".
- catalog identifier "0807021032 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog spatial "New York City.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "614.5/112/097471 20".
- catalog subject "Coercion.".
- catalog subject "Communicable Diseases.".
- catalog subject "History.".
- catalog subject "Public Health.".
- catalog subject "Quarantine New York (State) New York History.".
- catalog subject "Quarantine history New York City.".
- catalog subject "Quarantine.".
- catalog subject "RA644.T8 L43 1996".
- catalog subject "Tuberculosis.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid Fever New York (State) New York History.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid Fever history New York City.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid Fever history.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid Fever.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid Mary, -1938.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid Mary, 1869-1938.".
- catalog subject "Typhoid fever New York (State) New York History.".
- catalog subject "WC 270 L439t 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Typhoid Mary : captive to the public's health / Judith Walzer Leavitt.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".