Contents
Books
Leavitt, J Walzer. (c1996). Typhoid Mary: captive to the public’s health. Beacon Press: Boston.
Contents:A special guest of the City of New York — The rigorous spirit of science: the triumph of bacteriology — Extraordinary and even arbitrary powers: public health policy — A menace to the community: law and the limits of liberty — She walked more like a man than a woman: social expectations and prejudice — This human culture tube: media and the cultural construction of “Typhoid Mary” — Banished like a leper: loss of liberty and personal misfortune — Misbegotten Mary: the stories continue — A square deal for public health — Events in Mary Mallon’s life.
Journal Articles
Gibbins, L. (1998). Mary Mallon: Disease, denial and detention. Journal Of Biological Education (Society Of Biology), 32(2), 127.
Looks at the story of Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary), a typhoid fever carrier associated with several outbreaks of the disease in New York City, New York between 1902 and 1915. Clinical description of typhoid fever; Link with contemporary diseases; Case filed by Doctor George Soper against Mallon.
Greenwood, V. (2015). Fever pitch: the frightening legacy of Typhoid Mary. Smithsonian, (11). 9.
One March day in 1907, a man appeared at the Park Avenue brownstone where 37-year-old Mary Mallon worked as a cook. He demanded a little bit of her blood