![]() ![]() ![]() Leavitt's readable account illuminates dilemmas that continue to haunt us. Leavitt engages the reader with the excitement of the early days of microbiology and brings to life the conflicting perspectives of journalists, public health officials, the law, and Mary Mallon herself. Combining social history with biography, historian Judith Leavitt re-creates early-twentieth-century New York City, a world of strict class divisions and prejudice against immigrants and women. This book tells the remarkable story of Mary Mallon-the real Typhoid Mary. To protect the public's health, authorities isolated her on Manhattan's North Brother Island, where she died some thirty years later. Tracked down through epidemiological detective work, she was finally apprehended as she hid behind a barricade of trashcans. Between 19, she infected twenty-two New Yorkers with typhoid fever through her puddings and cakes one of them died. ![]()
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