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

by Hardy, Anne

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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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  • Clarendon Press Brand
  • Dec 16, 1993 Pub Date:
  • 0198203772 ISBN-10:
  • 9780198203773 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 9.5 in * 1.05 in * 6.5 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: