City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco - Couverture souple

Craddock, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816630488 ISBN 13 : 9780816630486

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816630488
• ISBN 13: 9780816630486
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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