The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900
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The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900
Book Details
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Health, Fitness & Dieting
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN-13
- 9780198203773
- ISBN-10
- 0198203772
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ISBN: 0198203772
Author: Hardy, Anne
Condition: Used
Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the many infectious diseases--whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis--in Victorian society. Hardy explores factors which helped to reduce fatality, focusing particularly on preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances affecting the diseases' behavior. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory of modern population growth.
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