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The Epidemic Streets

Hardcover • 1993 • English • 1. edition

The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900

By Anne Hardy

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About the book

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 t...Show more

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ISBN

9780198203773

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

1993

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Epidemic Streets

Format

Hardcover

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