![]() ![]() The popular version of her story begins in Oyster Bay, in 1906, when she worked in a home that a New York City banker, Charles Henry Warren, had rented for the summer. never accepted the fact that she could pass disease onto others. Leavitt, professor emerita of the history of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the author of the 1996 book, Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. ![]() "She was healthy, she didn't show any signs of the disease, and of course, at that time, the only understanding of disease was transmission through germs of someone who was sick, giving it to someone who wasn't sick," Leavitt said in a telephone interview. "She was really a brand new idea, as well as a reality at that time," said Judith Walzer Leavitt, professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin and an expert in medical history, the history of science and gender and women's studies. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy. ![]()
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