Name: Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague (en Inglés)
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Author: Randall, David K.
ISBN: 9780393609455

portada Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague (en Inglés)

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

David K. Randall

Editorial

W. W. Norton & Company

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.4 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm

Peso

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9780393609455

N° edición

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Enfermedades infectocontagiosas
Historia de américa
Historia local

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America From the Bubonic Plague (en Inglés)

David K. Randall (Autor) · W. W. Norton & Company · Tapa Dura

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For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows. His passing on March 6, 1900, would have been unremarkable if a city health officer hadn't noticed a swollen black lymph node on his groin--a sign of bubonic plague. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown while doctors examined Wong's tissue for telltale bacteria. If the devastating disease was not contained, San Francisco would become the American epicenter of an outbreak that had already claimed ten million lives worldwide.To local press, railroad barons, and elected officials, such a possibility was inconceivable--or inconvenient. As they mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, ending the career of one of the most brilliant scientists in the nation in the process, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save a city that refused to be rescued. Spearheading a relentless crusade for sanitation, Blue and his men patrolled the squalid streets of fast-growing San Francisco, examined gory black buboes, and dissected diseased rats that put the fate of the entire country at risk.In the tradition of Erik Larson and Steven Johnson, Randall spins a spellbinding account of Blue's race to understand the disease and contain its spread--the only hope of saving San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate.