![]() ![]() 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. This timely and humanizing portrait of the real Typhoid Mary provides a window into the ethical dilemmas surrounding public health policy both past and present ![]()
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