The epidemic streets : infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900 / Anne Hardy.

Main entry:

Hardy, Anne, 1953-

Title & Author:

The epidemic streets : infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900 / Anne Hardy.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Description:

xii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-314) and index.
1. Whooping Cough -- 2. Measles -- 3. Scarlet Fever -- 4. Diphtheria -- 5. Smallpox -- 6. Typhoid -- 7. Typhus -- 8. Tuberculosis -- 9. The Impact of Local Preventive Medicine.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University.

Summary:

The Epidemic Streets represents a major advance in the historical study of death and disease in the nineteenth century. Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the behaviour of the infectious diseases in the Victorian city. Whooping cough and measles, scarlet fever and diphtheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain a hundred years ago; today they have almost ceased to trouble the developed world. Dr Hardy explores the factors which helped to reduce their fatality, focusing particularly on the role of preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances which affected the behaviour of the different diseases. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory of modern population growth, and it also extends our understanding of the ways in which Victorian society - both lay and medical - coped with the problems of endemic and epidemic infectious disease.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0198203772 (cloth)
9780198203773 (cloth)

Subject:

Communicable diseases England London History 19th century.
Medicine, Preventive England London History 19th century.
Epidemiology England London.
Communicable Diseases history
Preventive Medicine history
Maladies infectieuses Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Médecine préventive Angleterre Londres Histoire 19e siècle.
Épidémiologie Angleterre Londres.
44.75 infectious diseases, parasitic diseases.
Communicable diseases.
Epidemiology.
Medicine, Preventive.
Epidemie
Gesundheitsvorsorge
Infektionskrankheit
Prävention
Präventivmedizin
Besmettelijke ziekten.
Preventieve geneeskunde.
Epidemiologie.
Geschichte (1856-1900)
Geschichte 1856-1900.
London
England London.
England
Großbritannien
Public health History, 1837-1901
London (England)

Form/genre:

Student Collection.
History.
Hochschulschrift.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 89613
Call No.: ID:93-B2590
Status: Available

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