![]() ![]() While viewed as a menace by the New York public health department, the legal system, media, and general public, Mary Mallon was also a powerfully plucky bad ass, who despite institutional entities against her, little education, and limited support, fought her detainment till her death in 1938. Often told with a reductionist focus in science textbooks, Judith Walzer Leavitt’s social history, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public Health(1997), sets Mallon’s story straight. ![]() Cracking skulls and taking names, Mary Mallon was villainously recreated in the popular press as “Typhoid Mary.” From New York American, June 20, 1909. ![]()
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