Dr Jacob Steere-Williams (Royalty Account)

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

Produktdetails

• Rochester Studies in Medical History
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9781648250811
• ISBN-10: 1648250815
• Artikelnr.: 68285253

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