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Terrible Typhoid Mary by Susan Campbell Bartoletti · Booklabria

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First published: 2015
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Biography
Women, united states, biography
New york, history
Cooks
Women, biography, juvenile literature
Set in: New York
Characters: Typhoid Mary

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