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Description
The veteran Wall Street Journal science reporter Marilyn Chase's fascinating account of an outbreak of bubonic plague in late Victorian San Francisco is a real-life thriller that resonates in today's headlines. The Barbary Plague transports us to the Gold Rush boomtown in 1900, at the end of the city's Gilded Age. With a deep understanding of the effects on public health of politics, race, and geography, Chase shows how one city triumphed over perhaps the most frightening and deadly of all scourges.
Author: Marilyn Chase
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 03/09/2004
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780375757082
ISBN10: 0375757082
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Medical | Infectious Diseases
Author: Marilyn Chase
Publisher: Random House Trade
Published: 03/09/2004
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780375757082
ISBN10: 0375757082
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 20th Century
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Medical | Infectious Diseases
About the Author
MARILYN CHASE, a longtime reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covers medical science and health care, currently focusing on infectious-disease outbreaks and bioterrorism. An honors graduate of Stanford University who also holds a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley, Chase lives with her family in San Francisco.