Guenter B. Risse

Driven by Fear

Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence

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Produktbeschreibung

Guenter B. Risse is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His books include Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown and Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals .

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Produktdetails

• History of Emotions
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780252081385
• ISBN-10: 0252081382
• Artikelnr.: 42696976

Autorenporträt

Guenter B. Risse is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His books include Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown and Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals.

Inhaltsangabe

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