1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716894003321

Autore

Stanton Gregory P.

Titolo

Status of water levels and selected water-quality conditions in the Mississippi River Valley alluvial aquifer in eastern Arkansas, 1994-96 / / by Gregory P. Stanton, Robert L. Joseph, and Aaron L. Pugh ; prepared in cooperation with the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission and the Arkansas Geological Commission

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Little Rock, Arkansas : , : U.S. Geological Survey, , 1998

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 72 pages) : illustrations, maps + + 3 plates

Collana

Water-resources investigations report ; ; 98-4131

Soggetti

Water quality - Arkansas

Water levels - Arkansas

Water quality - Mississippi River Valley

Water levels - Mississippi River Valley

Water levels

Water quality

Arkansas

Mississippi River Valley

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 11).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797712103321

Autore

Risse Guenter B.

Titolo

Driven by fear : epidemics and isolation in San Francisco's house of pestilence / / Guenter B. Risse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-252-09795-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

History of Emotions

Disciplina

979.461

Soggetti

Epidemics - California - San Francisco - History

Prejudices - California - San Francisco - History

Plague - California - San Francisco - History

History

San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Peter N. Stearns; Preface; Introduction; 1 Domains of Contagion and Confinement; 2 Framing "Loathsome" Diseases; 3 Tides of Inertia and Neglect; 4 Location: Not in My Backyard; 5 Banished: Sojourns of the Damned; 6 Belle of California's Molokai; 7 Wary Minders: Custodians and Caregivers; 8 Hope for Cures: Nature or Science; 9 Modern Isolation: Humanizing Castaways; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

From the late 19th century until the 1920's, 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 by widespread public dread and disgust. In this book, he analyses the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans.