NOVA's new film about Mary Mallon, The Most Dangerous Woman in America, is based on the book Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health by Judith Walzer Leavitt, a professor of medical history and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin's Medical School. Her book has been heralded as "an indelible pleasure of early 20th-century New York, when modern knowledge and … [Read more...] about Typhoid Mary Under
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