Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health by Judith Walzer Leavitt

Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health

Judith Walzer Leavitt

352 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative slow-paced
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This timely and humanizing portrait of the real Typhoid Mary provides a window into the ethical dilemmas surrounding public health policy both past and present She was an Irish immigrant cook. Between 1900 and 1907, she infected twenty-two New Yor...

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