Skip to content
Home/ City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco
City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco

City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco

by Craddock, Susan
No customer reviews yet ISBN 9780816630486

An eye-opening discussion of the ways disease shapes urban society

Disease may not discriminate, but it helps those who do. In this fascinating book, Susan Craddock examines the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class, and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco. An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class in urban development during nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco. Susan Craddock considers tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, and syphilis as diseases whose devastations were derived in part from their use as political tools and disciplinary mechanisms

About the author

Product details

Pub dateFeb 25, 2004
ISBN-100816630488
ISBN-139780816630486
LanguageEnglish
Last updated 2026-07-24 18:33
$32.07
In stock soon — order now to reserve your copy
Delivery by Monday, September 14, 2026
Qty
Sign in to Add to Saved list
Free delivery on orders over $35.
15-day returns. Any reason.
Secure checkout. We never store card details.

Readers who bought this also bought

More from Epidemiology
See all
Blue Death
Morris, Robert D
$15.08
Medical Epidemiology: Population Health and Effective Health Care, Fifth Edition (Revised)
Greenberg, Raymond S
$97.96
Marek's Disease: An Evolving Problem
Marek's disease is a form of cancer of poultry caused by an important herpesvirus (MDV). It continues to be a threat to poultry health and welfare and worldwide losses are estimated to be US$ 1 billion annually. <i>Marek's Disease</i> provides a timely review of the problems of Marek's disease with descriptions of the complex viral life cycle, how MDV targets different types of white blood cells, and details of the virus structure, its genes and proteins.
$143.64
Of Mice, Men, and Microbes: Hantavirus
Harper, David R
$67.01
Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Epidemiology
Available
$283.28
Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases
<i>Social Ecology of Infectious Diseases</i> explores how human activities enable microbes to disseminate and evolve, thereby creating favorable conditions for the diverse manifestations of communicable diseases. Today, infectious and parasitic diseases cause about one-third of deaths and are the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality. The speed that changes in human behavior can produce epidemics is well illustrated by AIDS, but this is only one of numerous microbial threats whose severity and spread are determined by human behaviors. In this book, forty experts in the fields of infectious diseases, the life sciences and public health explore how demography, geography, migration, travel, environmental change, natural disaster, sexual behavior, drug use, food production and distribution, medical technology, training and preparedness, as well as governance, human conflict and social dislocation influence current and likely future epidemics.
$126.20