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

By Anne Hardy

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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.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198203772

ISBN13:9780198203773

Release Date:December 1993

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:338 Pages

Weight:1.44 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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