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The Lessons Of Typhoid Mary
By Andy Soth/WisContext
Many people have heard of Typhoid Mary, but far fewer know the name Mary Mallon. For those familiar with the story of the actual person who would become known as an infamous spreader of disease, though, the name Judith Walzer Leavitt might also ring a bell.
Leavitt's 1995 book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public Health, tells the story of Mallon, an Irish immigrant cook in New York and asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever who was involuntarily quarantined and spent years in isolation during the early 20th century. The questions raised through Leavitt's examination of the media, the legal system and public health officials' reactions to a woman charged with being a "Menace to the Community" remain to this day.
Posted on May 28, 2020
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The Lessons Of Typhoid Mary
By Andy Soth/WisContext
The questions raised through an examination of the media, the legal system and public health officials' reactions to a woman charged with being a "Menace to the Community" remain to this day.Posted on May 28, 2020
Digital Rights During The Pandemic
By The Electronic Frontier Foundation
No matter who you are, this collection will likely be relevant to your understanding of the pandemic and society's response to it.Posted on May 26, 2020
Why Science Denialism Persists
By Elizabeth Svoboda/Undark
Galileo, GMOs and COVID-19.Posted on May 25, 2020
Honoring Four Of Harlem's Historic Voices
By The U.S. Postal Service
With a nod to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, the U.S. Postal Service today is issuing new postage stamps honoring the lives and legacies of four of the movement's greatest voices: novelist Nella Larsen; writer, philosopher, educator and arts advocate Alain Locke; bibliophile and historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg; and poet Anne Spencer.Posted on May 21, 2020
China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey Are World's Worst Jailers Of Writers
By PEN America
At least 238 writers, academics, and public intellectuals were imprisoned or held in detention in 2019, facing often brutal treatment and baseless charges.Posted on May 20, 2020
Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary
By Meng Xia/The Conversation
A personal account of public memory and national trauma.Posted on May 19, 2020
Embracing Open Science Publishing In A Crisis
By Rory Mir/The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Thankfully, major commercial publishers such as Elsevier and Springer have already announced that they will drop their paywalls on coronavirus research. Now let's get everyone else on board.Posted on May 14, 2020
The Labor Plays Of Manny Fried
By SIU Press
From red-baiting to blacklisting.Posted on May 12, 2020
The Loss Of Normality
By Dan Falk/Undark
Something very close to freedom.Posted on May 8, 2020
Reopening Books
By David Rutter
This is a warning to my local library: I am coming. I am coming very soon.Posted on May 5, 2020
Covering Kent State
By Mission Point Press
With a comment on local news from Steve Rhodes.Posted on May 4, 2020
Immigrants And Epidemics
By Dan Falk/Undark
Throughout our history, one of the themes of American xenophobia has been fear of the foreign-born because they are disease-bringers to the United States.Posted on April 24, 2020
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