Deadly (2011)
“Despite my desire to be purely scientific, I have sympathies, revulsions, fears. But I want to be more than human, better than human—I want to be above and see all, to understand the reason for everything. I want to be pure science, pure brain, without so much feeling. Feeling clouds me. And yet I come back to the sad truth: I am human, I cannot help but feel for a woman we’ve imprisoned, a woman who carries disease and makes people ill.
Tests have revealed it: Mary Mallon carries the typhoid f...ever bacteria inside her.
It splits me like lightning, this definite news. There can be no doubt about her now. But the way we approached her haunts me, it bothers me to the very center of myself.
Is it right for the department to treat a human being like a contagious disease?
I’m not the only one whose feelings about this are knotted.
Despite Mr. Soper’s personal explanation of how he saved the Bowings from this epidemic, they are outraged at our department for entering and searching their home with no legal warrant, for handling their personal belongings, for frightening the servants and dirtying their floors, and for removing Mary so abruptly and imprisoning her with no apparent reason (Mary is not sick, they insist, and could not possibly be responsible for the department’s claims).MoreLess
Tests have revealed it: Mary Mallon carries the typhoid f...ever bacteria inside her.
It splits me like lightning, this definite news. There can be no doubt about her now. But the way we approached her haunts me, it bothers me to the very center of myself.
Is it right for the department to treat a human being like a contagious disease?
I’m not the only one whose feelings about this are knotted.
Despite Mr. Soper’s personal explanation of how he saved the Bowings from this epidemic, they are outraged at our department for entering and searching their home with no legal warrant, for handling their personal belongings, for frightening the servants and dirtying their floors, and for removing Mary so abruptly and imprisoning her with no apparent reason (Mary is not sick, they insist, and could not possibly be responsible for the department’s claims).MoreLess
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