Back
Terrible Typhoid Mary cover
2015•236 pages•Published•ENG•User Reviews

Terrible Typhoid Mary

3.5/ 5
2 ratings

About This Book

With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, provides a biography of Mary Mallon that goes beyond the typhoid scandal of her controversial life, and explores issues such as her treatment by medical and legal officials, human and constitutional rights, and the science of pathology. Discusses her later years, and her death in 1938.

Track Your Reading

Sign in to save this book, track pages, log finished reads and rereads, and build your Reading Diary.

Sign In

Community Reviews

Reviews

Browse all reviews →
Sign in to review

No reviews yet. Be the first.

QuarantineTyphoid feverCooksJuvenile literatureHistoryCommunicable diseasesCommunicable diseases, juvenile literatureNew york (n.y.), historyNew york (n.y.), juvenile literatureBiographyWomen, united states, biographyWomen, biography, juvenile literature

The Swinging Light

Book Details

First Published

2015

Pages

236 pages

Rating

3.5 / 5

Ratings

2

Editions

4

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Language

ENG

Status

Published

The People Behind The Book

Authors

You May Also Like

Recommended Books

Joy of Cooking cover

Joy of Cooking

1931

Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker, Megan Scott