Terrible Typhoid Mary

Description:

With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, provides a biography of Mary Mallon that goes beyond the typhoid scandal of her controversial life, and explores issues such as her treatment by medical and legal officials, human and constitutional rights, and the science of pathology. Discusses her later years, and her death in 1938.

subjects: Quarantine,  Typhoid fever,  Cooks,  Juvenile literature,  History,  Communicable diseases,  Communicable diseases, juvenile literature,  New york (n.y.), history,  New york (n.y.), juvenile literature,  Biography,  Women, united states, biography,  Women, biography, juvenile literature

People: Typhoid Mary

Places: New York