Terrible Typhoid Mary
About this book
With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, provides a biography of Mary Mallon that goes beyond the typhoid scandal of her controversial life, and explores issues such as her treatment by medical and legal officials, human and constitutional rights, and the science of pathology. Discusses her later years, and her death in 1938.
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- OL Work ID
- OL17295040W
Subjects
QuarantineTyphoid feverCooksJuvenile literatureHistoryCommunicable diseasesCommunicable diseases, juvenile literatureNew york (n.y.), historyNew york (n.y.), juvenile literatureBiographyWomen, united states, biographyWomen, biography, juvenile literature