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

by Anne Hardy

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...

• 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"