Title Driven by fear : epidemics and isolation in San Francisco's house of pestilence / Guenter B. Risse.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
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Description	1 online resource.
Series	History of emotions
	History of emotions.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Contents	Foreword / by Peter N. Stearns -- Introduction -- Domains of contagion and confinement -- Framing "loathsome" diseases -- Tides of inertia and neglect -- Location : not in my backyard -- Banished : sojourns of the damned -- Belle of California's Molokai -- War minders : custodians and caregivers -- Hope for cures : nature or science -- Modern isolation : humanizing castaways -- Epilogue.
Summary	Emotion's powerful role in personal and public responses to disease.
Language	English.
Subject	San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century.
	San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Epidemics -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
	Prejudices -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
	Plague -- California -- San Francisco -- History.
	Epidemics.
	San Francisco. (Epidemics)
	Plague.
	San Francisco. (Plague)
	Almshouses.
	San Francisco. (Almshouses)
	HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
	Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
	Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
	Prejudices. (OCoLC)fst01075260
	California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
	Infektionskrankheit.
	Isolierung.
	Pesthaus.
	Rassismus.
	San Francisco, Calif.
	San Francisco (Etats-Unis)
Chronological Term	1800 - 1999
Genre/Form	Electronic book.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Driven by fear Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016] 9780252039843 (hbk.) (DLC) 2015955035
ISBN	9780252097959 (eBook)
	0252097955 (eBook)
Standard No.	ebc4306060

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