Typhoid Mary Captive to the Public's Health

Name: Typhoid Mary Captive to the Public's Health
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ISBN: 9780807021033

ISBN-10: 0807021032

ISBN-13: 9780807021033

Edition: 1997

Authors: Judith Walzer Leavitt

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She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes; one of them died. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. To protect the public's health, authorities isolated her on Manhattan's North Brother Island, where she died some thirty years later. This book tells the remarkable story of Mary Mallon--the real Typhoid Mary. Combining social history with biography, historian Judith Leavitt re-creates early-twentieth-century New York City, a world of strict class divisions and prejudice against immigrants and women. Leavitt…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 7/31/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Judith Walzer Leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of Medical History and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author ofBrought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950andTyphoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health.