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City of plagues : disease, poverty, and deviance in San Francisco / Susan Craddock.

Author/creator Craddock, Susan
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Descriptionx, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Tuberculosis, tenements, and the epistemology of neglect -- Sewers and scapegoats : epidemic diseases and their spatial metaphors in San Francisco, 1868-87 -- Negotiating the boundaries, policing the borders of disease -- Structures of susceptibility and the architecture of disease : the plague epidemics of 1900 and 1907 -- Reforming bodies : poverty, discipline, and the sanatorium experience -- Reforming the city : domestic restructuring and the tuberculosis hospital -- Envisioning an epilogue to urban maladies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and index.
LCCN 99057350
ISBN081663047X (hbk.)
ISBN0816630488 (pbk.)

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