City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco - Softcover

Craddock, Susan

 
9780816630486: City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816630488 ISBN 13: 9780816630486
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

An eye-opening discussion of the ways disease shapes urban society

Disease may not discriminate, but it helps those who do. In this fascinating book, Susan Craddock examines the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class, and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco. An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class in urban development during nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco. Susan Craddock considers tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, and syphilis as diseases whose devastations were derived in part from their use as political tools and disciplinary mechanisms

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Craddock is associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816630488
ISBN 13 
9780816630486
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
312
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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