An edition of Terrible Typhoid Mary (2015)

Terrible Typhoid Mary

A true story of the deadliest cook in America

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An edition of Terrible Typhoid Mary (2015)

Terrible Typhoid Mary

A true story of the deadliest cook in America

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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.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages
229

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Subjects

Quarantine, Typhoid fever, Cooks, Juvenile literature, History, Communicable diseases, Communicable diseases, juvenile literature, New york (n.y.), history, New york (n.y.), juvenile literature, Biography, Women, united states, biography, Women, biography, juvenile literature

People

Typhoid Mary

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New York

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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
2023, HarperCollins Publishers
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. In which Mrs. Warren has a servant problem
Page 3
Chapter 2. In which the Warrens get more than their just "Desserts"
Page 8
Chapter 3. In which the usual suspects are questioned
Page 20
Chapter 4. In which an epidemic fighter hunts for a clue
Page 25
Chapter 5. In which the cook rules the kitchen
Page 36
Chapter 6. In which Mary walks more like a man than a woman
Page 44
Chapter 7. In which extraordinary and arbitrary powers are at work
Page 53
Chapter 8. In which Mary fights like a caged lion
Page 65
Chapter 9. In which Mary's bad behavior leads to her doom
Page 75
Chapter 10. In which there's some name-calling
Page 86
Chapter 11. In which Mary is banished like a leper
Page 94
Chapter 12. In which Mary Mallon has her day in court
Page 107
Chapter 13. In which Mary learns to keep her germs to herself
Page 119
Chapter 14. In which it takes a squad of sanitary police
Page 128
Chapter 15. In which a weaker spirit might have been broken
Page 136
Afterward. In which we consider the writing of Mary's life
Page 147

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New York, USA
Copyright Date
2015

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Library of Congress
RA644.T8 B37 2015, RA644.T8B37 2015

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
229p.
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25868112M
Internet Archive
terribletyphoidm0000bart
ISBN 13
9780544313675
LCCN
2014023057
OCLC/WorldCat
881418232

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