Synopsis
About Judith Walzer Leavitt
See more books from this AuthorA social historian's thoughtful examination of the conflict between individual liberty and public health as exemplified by the case of Mary Mallon, the typhoid fever carrier who, early in this century, was permanently isolated by New York authorities on an island in the East River.
| Read Full Review of Typhoid Mary : Captive to the...Mary Mallon was a feisty 36-year-old Irish immigrant who made her living as a cook for wealthy New York City families when she was seized, in 1907, by officers of the city's Public Health Department and detained in a cottage on North Brother Island where, except for two years, she lived in isolat...
| Read Full Review of Typhoid Mary : Captive to the...By comparing Mallon's treatment with the health department's handling of the hundreds of carriers subsequently identified in the 1910s and 1920s, Leavitt highlights the circumstances that made Mallon's case both distinctive and tragic.
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