1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460565803321

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

Electronic books.

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002742769707536

Autore

Gros, Pierre

Titolo

Storia dell'urbanistica : il mondo romano / Pierre Gros, Mario Torelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Laterza, 1988

ISBN

8842032646

Descrizione fisica

466 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Grandi opere

Altri autori (Persone)

Torelli, Marioauthor

Disciplina

711.4093

Soggetti

Urbanistica - Impero romano

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia