The book Fatal Fever by Gail Jarrow describes how typhoid be a very dangerous disease. The story took place in New York of 1903, when Soper had just gotten the case with Mary Mallon. Mary Mallon was a potential carrier of typhoid, but Mary didn’t believe it, so Soper (and potentially Baker) asked her to come with him to do some testing. When Mary was dragged to the testing island, she was isolated in a hut and was constantly tested on. Since the scientists took away Mary’s freedom, she decided to write a court case and won. She was later locked up again because she started to spread typhoid again by being a cook. Reading this book, I thought of Human Rights as a social issue because I feel like it is very unfair to Mary because her freedom was taken away, along with her job and a large sum of her pay.

 

In the page of notes below, you can see an example of a very subtle argument for the health department:  The Health Department should continue to do what they need to do to keep people safe.

Earlier in the book, i found out that Typhoid can be very dangerous because it is deadly and very contagious. It had infected many people in a few months.

 

When I later read the book, I found that the health department was very unfair with their people, as Mary Mallon, a Typhoid carrier, was locked up on North Brother Island, and had tests done on without her consent.

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