Jacob Steere-Williams

The Filth Disease

Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England

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Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250026
• ISBN-10: 1648250025
• Artikelnr.: 59585076

Autorenporträt

Jacob Steere-Williams

Inhaltsangabe

Typhoid Cultures and Framing the Filth Disease A Royal Thanksgiving:
Disease and the Victorian Social Body A Good Working Theory: Water and the
Methods of Outbreak Investigation before 1880 Nature's Not-So Perfect Food:
The Epidemiology of Milk-Borne Typhoid Soils, Stools, and Saprophytes:
Epidemiology in the Age of Bacteriology Typhoid in the Tropics: Imperial
Bodies, Warfare, and the Reframing of Typhoid as a Global Disease The
Afterlife of Victorian Typhoid