Typhoid Mary : Captive to the Public’s Health
Typhoid Mary : Captive to the Broadcast’s Health Books
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Relates the remarkable and tragic tale of Mary Mallon, an Irish immigrant cook, who became known as “Typhoid Mary” when she infected many New Yorkers with the deadly disease, and her isolation from the broadcast until her death thirty years later.
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There is a significant error in the review by Publisher’s Weekly. They refer to the microbe as the “typhus bacillus.”
It should be the “typhoid bacillus.” Typhoid and typhus are two entirely different diseases caused by different microorganisms.
Rating: 4 / 5
‘Typhoid Mary’ has become a catchphrase for disease, pestilence, and death. Most people have heard the nickname, but few know the particulars. Judith Walzer Leavitt takes a dreaded and legendary figure in the history of broadcast health protection, and, in a factual but entertaining style, gives us the who, what, where, when, and why. In so doing, the author also examines the age-ancient dilemma of individual liberty vs broadcast safety.
Typhoid Mary was an Irish immigrant cook named Mary Mallon, who spent decades as a prisoner / guest of the New York Broadcast Health Department. As a healthy carrier, she did not exhibit typhoid symptoms herself, but the disease was transmitted via the food she prepared. Her refusal to seek a different livelihood, and aggressive deameanor toward health officials, resulted in her confinement on North Brother Island, a quarantine location, where she died in 1938.
“Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Broadcast Health” is not just a work of medical history or biography of a feisty woman who fought the system and lost. Mary Mallon, as a healthy carrier of a deadly disease, has her modern equal in the millions of people who are HIV positive or suffer from drug-resistant tuberculosis. Leavitt raises uncomfortable questions about quarantine practices and examines how past treatment of the afflicted has been based on gender and socio-economic status. Statistics and sociological arguments have a strong presence in each chapter, but they don’t detract from the book’s fascinate to the lay reader.
“Typhoid Mary” is an uneasy reminder that history doesn’t everlastingly do again itself- sometimes it never goes away in the first place.
Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book very fascinating and the multiple aspects of the tale are perfectly analyzed by the author. Is a excellent example of the social implications of a infectious disease and has strong relations with the bestow AIDS era we are living in. A lot of very vital lessons can be learned to know the bestow times. Very recomendable.
Rating: 4 / 5
Leavitt painstakingly explores Mary Mallon’s tale from a number of angles – social, historical, medical, etc. and the relevance of what we can learn from her situation to modern day issues. The theme was fascinating, but the book tended to be dry and redundant in places. If you are looking to know the issues at hand, this is for you. If you’re just interested in the tale of Typhoid Mary, I would urge a slightly lighter version.
Rating: 4 / 5
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Broadcast’s Health by Judith Walzer Leavitt may possibly be shorter. Not much shorter, just a bit shorter. The beginning of the book is surprisingly dull and a fantastic deal of in rank is repeated unnecessarily.
That said, Typhoid Mary is very well-written, even the dull bits. The research is well-documented and complete. And the theme matter is more than a small engrossing. Who was the woman behind the mark “Typhoid Mary”?
Leavitt is making the link between typhoid and AIDS, in particular the problem of finding the balance between protecting individual rights and protecting the community. She spends time on this theme towards the end of the book and has some compassionate and reasonable things to say. The strongest part of the book, but, is in the history and in Leavitt’s appreciation of Mary Mallon as an individual. The most fascinating parts of the book (and where the writing picks up considerably) are the chapters on the broadcast perception of Typhoid Mary throughout the 20th century.
Recommendation: Buy it if it’s a theme that already interests you. Otherwise, check it out of the library.
Rating: 4 / 5