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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Risse, Guenter B., author.

Series:

History of emotions.

History of Emotions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemics--California--San Francisco--History.

Epidemics.

Prejudices--California--San Francisco--History.

Prejudices.

Plague--California--San Francisco--History.

Plague.

San Francisco (Calif.)--History--20th century.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 19, 2016).

ISBN:

9780252097959

0252097955

OCLC:

935982845