TY - JOUR
AU - Martin, James Kirby
AB - 260 The Journal of American History June 2002 City of Plagues is another of the ever-expand- conceptualizations of cultural theorists to sup- ing brood of books sired by Michel Foucault’s port her interpretations and arguments nor influential if promiscuous contention that the her explanation that she focuses little atten- signifying processes inherent in medical dis- tion on the subaltern because hers is not a mi- courses serve disciplinary functions by rein- crohistory seems sufficient to compensate for forcing the association of the powerless and the dearth of a substantial and varied eviden- marginalized with deviance and danger. The tiary base. discourses it examines are those inspired Also undercutting the authority of Crad- among late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth- dock’s policy analysis is her depiction of the century San Franciscan health officials and politics of policy construction and implemen- physicians by epidemic visitations of smallpox tation, a depiction that is considerably less de- and bubonic plague and by the endemic pres- tailed and nuanced than that of other pub- ence of syphilis and tuberculosis. Drawing pri- lished single-city public health histories. marily on published health department re- Especially in her treatment of tuberculosis ports and medical journal articles, it attempts policy, she 
TI - Deadly Enemies: Tobacco and Its Opponents in Australia. (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. xiv, 271 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-86840-745-3.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2700872
DA - 2002-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/deadly-enemies-tobacco-and-its-opponents-in-australia-sydney-AR3PNm7m8q
SP - 260
EP - 261
VL - 89
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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