1,000-1,250 words.
Works Cited required.
Pick one of the following three articles:
Harold L. Platt, “Clever Microbes: Bacteriology and SanitaryTechnology in Manchester and Chicago during the Progressive Age,” in Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 19, Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments (2004), pp. 149-166
Harold L. Platt, “Jane Addams and the Ward Boss Revisited: Class, Politics, and Public Health in Chicago, 1890-1930″ in Environmental History, Vol. 5, No. 2, environmental Justice in the City: A theme for Urban Environmental History (Apr., 2000) pp. 194-222
Margaret Garb, “Health, Morality, and Housing: The Tenement Problem in Chicago” in American Journal of Public Health, September 2003, Vol 93. No. 9, pp. 1420-1430.
Analyze the intersection of the different analytical categories as they appear in your self-selected reading.
Think about other assignments where you were asked to reflect onurban lives / city cultures through the lens of a single analyticalcategory. What is the benefit of looking at a particular issue throughthe intersection of several analytical categories rather than one? Whatis gained by doing so? What is lost?
Use at least 5 (five) other course sources (in addition to the self-selected article) in your analysis.