| Contents |
Prologue: Fighting the devil with fire -- Across the sea -- The Nippon Maru -- The imperial city -- Criminal idiocy -- Fault lines -- Quarantine -- Oust the faker -- An infamous compact -- An impossible task -- A most peculiar team -- As soon as possible -- The unpleasant past -- For god's sake send food -- Two percent -- The worst corner of hell -- One of California's adopted sons -- Cast aside -- A hero once more -- Epilogue: how close we came. |
| Abstract |
Traces the massive effort to contain an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900 San Francisco, detailing how the process was complicated by virulent racism, pseudoscience, and political cover-ups. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source |
Laupus- Daniel Shingleton, donor. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018055377 |
| ISBN | 9780393609455 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0393609456 hardcover |
