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Driven by Fear
Guenter B. Risse
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Description for Driven by Fear
hardcover. Series: History of Emotions. Num Pages: 316 pages, 11 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: MBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and played out. Guenter B. Risse places this forgotten institution within an emotional climate dominated by widespread public dread and disgust. In Driven by Fear, he analyzes the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans. Emotional states like xenophobia and racism played a part. ... Read more
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 civic life where issues of medicine, race, class, environment, morality, and citizenship entwined and played out. Guenter B. Risse places this forgotten institution within an emotional climate dominated by widespread public dread and disgust. In Driven by Fear, he analyzes the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans. Emotional states like xenophobia and racism played a part. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Series
History of Emotions
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039843
SKU
V9780252039843
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About Guenter B. Risse
Guenter B. Risse is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His books include Plague, Fear, and Politics in San Francisco's Chinatown and Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals.
Reviews for Driven by Fear
"This study of the pesthouse, an institution designed to cope with the fear of contagious disease, is a significant contribution to the history of American medicine and public health as well as the history of immigration and ethnicity."
Journal of American Ethnic History "With this timely book, Risse has made an important contribution to the critical reflection of ongoing reorganisations ... Read more
Journal of American Ethnic History "With this timely book, Risse has made an important contribution to the critical reflection of ongoing reorganisations ... Read more