Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence by Guenter B. Risse

Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco's House of Pestilence

History of Emotions

Guenter B. Risse

316 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history
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From the late nineteenth century until the 1920s, 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...

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