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

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

Hardcover

Medical ReferenceBritish History

ISBN10: 0198203772
ISBN13: 9780198203773
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Dec 16 1993
Pages: 338
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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