Symbolic Culture and Public Health

Watch: The Most Dangerous Woman in America
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2dWfndZwG18
Read: - Judith Walzer Leavitt, “Mary: Villain or Victim?”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/typhoid/mary.html
Andreas Huyssen, “Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other”
Gaylyn Studlar, “White Trash Celebrity in the Age of Eugenics”
Write: An essay in which you take up the concept of symbolism in relation to public health. In particular,

use the evidence provided by Typhoid Mary to identify how tropes of racism, sexism, and xenophobia

invade panic discourses around safety. There are obvious connections to what we are experiencing now

worth mentioning in your response