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 material is brought
together to describe, in a geographical, historical, and cultural
framework, the experience, among San Francisco's population, of
diseases such as tuberculosis, smallpox, syphilis and other
sexually transmitted diseases, plague, and, latterly, HIV and
AIDS." -Environment and Planning A
Susan Craddock is associate professor in the Department of
Women's Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the
University of Minnesota.
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