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City of Plagues : Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780816630486
- ISBN-10: 0816630488
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publish Date: February 2004
- Dimensions: 8.78 x 5.72 x 0.64 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.88 pounds
- Page Count: 312
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