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Edition: 1
Release: 2004-02-25
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0816630488
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
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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 ma Download City Of Plagues for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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