City of Plagues

by Craddock, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780816630486
• ISBN10: 0816630488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

An absorbing look at the role of disease and health policy in the construction of race, gender, and class and in urban development in nineteenth- and twentieth-century San Francisco."Craddock's provocative work offers an invaluable perspective on public health and the construction of race that speaks not only to the past but also to the present." -Bulletin of the History of Medicine"City of Plagues should fuel excitement and increase other geographers' notice of the remarkable work emanating from it. It simply and brilliantly traces how the often-argued triad of power/knowledge/space actually works in a particular place, at a particular time, and around a particular issue. Meticulous and nuanced." -Environment and Planning D: Society and Space"This book provides an engaging, readable, and well-researched account of the social, political, and medical responses to infectious diseases in San Francisco from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. A wealth of material is brought together to describe, in a geographical, historical, and cultural framework, the experience, among San Francisco's population, of diseases such as tuberculosis, smallpox, syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, plague, and, latterly, HIV and AIDS." -Environment and Planning ASusan Craddock is associate professor in the Department of Women's Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.

Author Biography

Susan Craddock is assistant professor of women's studies and geography at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(20)
Tuberculosis, Tenements, and the Epistemology of Neglect	21	(40)
Sewers and Scapegoats Epidemic Diseases and Their Spatial Metaphors in San Francisco, 1868-87	61	(42)
Negotiating the Boundaries, Policing the Borders of Disease	103	(21)
Structures of susceptibility and the Architecture of Disease The Plague Epidemics of 1900 and 1907	124	(37)
Reforming Bodies Poverty, Discipline, and the Sanatorium Experience	161	(37)
Reforming the City Domestic Restructuring and the Tuberculosis Hospital	198	(48)
Envisioning an Epilogue to Urban Maladies	246	(13)
Notes	259	(16)
Bibliography	275	(18)
Index	293