Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence

by Guenter B Risse and Guenter B. Risse

Book Overview

From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, authorities required San Francisco's Pesthouse to segregate the diseased from the rest of the city. Although the Pesthouse stood out of sight and largely out of mind, it existed at a vital nexus of civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and played out. Guenter B. Risse places this forgotten institution within an emotional climate dominated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252081382
• ISBN13: 9780252081385
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"