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City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, And Deviance In San Francisco

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title City Of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, And Deviance In San Francisco
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Susan Craddock
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:312
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 149
ISBN/Barcode 9780816630486
ClassificationsDewey:362.1
Audience
General
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 25 February 2004
Publication Country United States

Description

An absorbing look at 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.

Author Biography

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

Reviews

"Craddock's provocative work offers an invaluable perspective on public health and the construction of race that speaks not only to the past but also to the present." -Bulletin of the History of Medicine "City of Plagues should fuel excitement and increase other geographers' notice of the remarkable work emanating from it. It simply and brilliantly traces how the often-argued triad of power/knowledge/space actually works in a particular place, at a particular time, and around a particular issue. Meticulous and nuanced." -Environment and Planning D: Society and Space "This book provides an engaging, readable, and well-researched account of the social, political, and medical responses to infectious diseases in San Francisco from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. A wealth of material is brought together to describe, in a geographical, historical, and cultural framework, the experience, among San Francisco's population, of diseases such as tuberculosis, smallpox, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, plague, and, latterly, HIV and AIDS." -Environment and Planning A