A study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. A century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain. Num Pages: 338 pages, figures, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; MBN; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 646. . 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0198203772
ISBN 13: 9780198203773
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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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Anne Hardy is at Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.

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