Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown / Guenter B. Risse.

  • Risse, Guenter B., 1932-
Date:
[2012], ©2012
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

"The people of Tang" in San Francisco -- "Guarding life" and way of death -- Sanitation, microbes, and plague -- Officials, Mandarins, and the press -- Early scenes of terror : Chinatown, March to June 1900 -- The siege continues : Chinatown, June to December 1900 -- Secrecy : plague goes underground, 1901 -- Rumors and realities : plague in California, 1902 -- National threat, 1903 -- Sanitarians claim victory, 1904 to 1905.

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    History of Medicine
    FL.698.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9781421405100
  • 9781421405537
  • 1421405105
  • 1421405539