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

• Autore: Risse Guenter B.
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, [Illinois] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.461
• Soggetto topico: Epidemics - California - San Francisco - History; Prejudices - California - San Francisco - History; Plague - California - San Francisco - History
• Soggetto geografico: San Francisco (Calif.) History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Driven by fear
• ISBN: 0-252-09795-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809580603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of emotions.