Synopsis
Relates the remarkable and tragic story of Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant cook, who became known as "Typhoid Mary" when she infected many New Yorkers with the deadly disease, and her isolation from the public until her death thirty years later.
About Judith Walzer Leavitt
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Judith Walzer Leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of Medical History and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Published May 1, 1996
by Putnam Publishing Group.
331 pages
Genres:
Biographies & Memoirs, History, Professional & Technical, Science & Math.
Non-fiction
