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City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco
Contributor(s): Craddock, Susan (Author)

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ISBN: 0816630488     ISBN-13: 9780816630486
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
OUR PRICE: $28.88  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: February 2004
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Annotation: 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.

"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

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

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Epidemiology
- Medical | Gynecology & Obstetrics
Dewey: 614.497
LCCN: 99057350
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.72" W x 8.78" L (0.88 lbs) 312 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Locality - San Francisco, California
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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