City of plagues : disease, poverty, and deviance in San Francisco / Susan Craddock.

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2000], ©2000.

x, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and index.

Tuberculosis, tenements, and the epistemology of neglect -- Sewers and scapegoats : epidemic diseases and their spatial metaphors in San Francisco, 1868-87 -- Negotiating the boundaries, policing the borders of disease -- Structures of susceptibility and the architecture of disease : the plague epidemics of 1900 and 1907 -- Reforming bodies : poverty, discipline, and the sanatorium experience -- Reforming the city : domestic restructuring and the tuberculosis hospital -- Envisioning an epilogue to urban maladies.