TY - BOOK ID - 78070434 TI - Driven by fear : epidemics and isolation in San Francisco's house of pestilence PY - 2015 SN - 0252097955 9780252097959 9780252039843 025203984X 0252081382 9780252081385 PB - Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, DB - UniCat KW - Almshouses KW - Plague KW - Epidemics KW - Prejudices KW - Bubonic plague KW - Yersinia infections KW - Bias (Psychology) KW - Prejudgments KW - Prejudice KW - Prejudices and antipathies KW - Attitude (Psychology) KW - Emotions KW - Disease outbreaks KW - Diseases KW - Outbreaks of disease KW - Pestilences KW - Communicable diseases KW - Epidemic KW - Black Death KW - Black Plague KW - Septicemic Plague KW - Yersinia pestis Infection KW - Bubonic Plague KW - Meningeal Plague KW - Pneumonic Plague KW - Pulmonic Plague KW - Almshouse KW - History. KW - Outbreaks KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - San Francisco County (Calif.) KW - San Francisco KW - San Francisco City & County (Calif.) KW - San Francisco City and County (Calif.) KW - City & County of San Francisco (Calif.) KW - City and County of San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Saint Francisco (Calif.) KW - Yerba Buena (Calif.) KW - History KW - Pandemics KW - 1800 - 1999 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78070434 AB - From the late 19th century until the 1920's, 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 this book, he analyses the unique form of stigma generated by San Franciscans. ER -