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Emotion's powerful role in personal and public responses to disease
TitleContentsList of IllustrationsForeword by Peter N. StearnsPrefaceIntroduction1. Domains of Contagion and Confinement2. Framing "Loathsome" Diseases3. Tides of Inertia and Neglect4. Location: Not in My Backyard5. Banished: Sojourns of the Damned6. Belle of California's Molokai7. Wary Minders: Custodians and Caregivers8. Hope for Cures: Nature or Science9. Modern Isolation: Humanizing CastawaysEpilogueNotesIndex
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.
"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 and the apparent
strengthening of federal powers in matters of quarantine and
epidemic preparedness in the USA."--Social History of Medicine
"An excellent account of the largely overlooked role of pesthouses
in public health history… [Driven by Fear is] deeply researched,
wonderfully written, and very timely."--Western Historical
Quarterly
"A true gem from one of our most distinguished historians of
medicine. Risse's book is ambitious, original, and even brave.
Driven by Fear covers an admirably wide variety of subjects and
subdisciplines, and in the process truly breaks new ground in the
history of public health. Moreover, Risse's prose consistently
helps us feel the past--his is indeed an emotional as well as
intellectual achievement."--Robert D. Johnston, editor of The
Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in
Twentieth-Century North America
"Using a wonderfully drawn history of San Francisco's Pest House as
his primary exhibit, Risse shows us how fear of contagion, if not
diluted with compassion and a respect for human dignity, quickly
produces harsh, impersonal, and militaristic measures against 'the
enemy,' people who disgust us simply because they have, or might
have been exposed to, whatever the threatening disease of the day
is--smallpox, syphilis, leprosy, plague, or even SARS or Ebola. A
must read for anyone interested in protecting the public's health,
social justice, and human rights."--George J. Annas, author of
Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health
"In this startlingly vivid and humane study, Guenter Risse, doyen
of hospital historians, sets a lost history in the context of
issues of disease prevention, municipal politics, and the history
of the emotions. Only by understanding the lived experience of
disgust and fear in the past, Risse argues, are we likely to do
better in the present and future with stigmatized diseases."--Colin
Jones, author of The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century
Paris
"A deeply researched, very well-written and timely account by the
foremost historian of public health policy in the city by the
Golden Gate of how emotions of fear and disgust can war with
compassion and rational planning in the shaping of a community’s
response to epidemics. Risse has made a major contribution to both
San Francisco history and American social history by documenting
the tangled racial, ethnic, psychological, ideological, and
practical roots of the discourse and practice of activists who
worked to protect the city's residents from contagion by smallpox,
syphilis, leprosy, and bubonic plague in the early years of the
twentieth century. Driven by Fear is an engaging and highly
original addition to Western American history and American urban
history and a must read for historians and contemporary public
health scholars and practitioners."--William Issel, author of
Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth
Century San Francisco
"Thoroughly grounding his book in rich primary sources,
particularly newspapers (especially the San Francisco Chronicle,
and medical sources, Risse provides a model for sound historical
research and storytelling, both of considerable use to
undergraduates. Far more than an isolated historical account, the
work continually relates the historical implications to modern
medical culture and practice. Highly recommended."--Choice
"A well-researched study that demonstrates the shortsightedness of
governments that focused more on satisfying business interests than
on funding adequate health provisions in response to
epidemics."--Journal of American History
"Risse makes expert use of the history of the pesthouse to
illustrate the dangers of authoritarian public health interventions
. . . and makes a persuasive case for community-based,
multi-directional responses that conscientiously reckon with the
ways in which racial, ethnic, and class disparities frame our
understanding of health and risk."--Journal of the History of
Medicine and Allied Sciences
"This book is valuable for its detailed history of a troubling
chapter in medical and public health history. It should be required
reading for today's public health policy makers."--Bulletin of the
History of Medicine
"Guenter Risse has written a very interesting and well-documented
book, one that has a message for contemporary times as well as
being an exploration into the history of San Francisco's pest
house."--Pacific Historical Review
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