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The epidemic streets : infectious disease and the rise of preventive medicine, 1856-1900
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardy, Anne, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communicable diseases--History--19th century--London--England.
- Communicable diseases.
- Medicine, Preventive--19th century--History--London--England.
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Epidemiology--England--London.
- Epidemiology.
- History.
- Preventive Medicine.
- Communicable Diseases.
- Humanities.
- Cities.
- Public Health.
- Infections.
- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses.
- Medicine.
- Disease.
- Health Occupations.
- Geography.
- London.
- Medical Subjects:
- History.
- Preventive Medicine.
- Communicable Diseases.
- Humanities.
- Cities.
- Public Health.
- Infections.
- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses.
- Medicine.
- Disease.
- Health Occupations.
- Geography.
- London.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- epidemic streets
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title provides a study of death and disease in the 19th century, and how Victorian society coped with infectious disease. It tells how a century ago whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and many other diseases ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-76700-6
- 0-19-158302-2
- 9786610767007
- 0-585-26171-7
- OCLC:
- 1027197550
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