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The Lung Block : Plagues, Parks, and Power in Progressive-Era New York / Adrienne deNoyelles.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- deNoyelles, Adrienne, author.
- Series:
- History of the urban environment.
- History of the Urban Environment Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Public health.
- Tuberculosis--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Tuberculosis.
- City planning--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- City planning.
- Housing--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Housing.
- Housing--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century.
- Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Lays Bare the Class Struggles Inherent in Public Health and Urban Parks Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century.
- Contents:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: "To Rob Consumption of Its Terrors": Germ Theory, Hermann Biggs, and the "New" Tuberculosis
- CHAPTER 2: "City of the Living Death": Tuberculosis, Lawrence Veiller, and the Tenement House Commission of 1900
- CHAPTER 3: "The Plague in Its Stronghold": Lilian Brandt, Ernest Poole, and the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis
- CHAPTER 4: "'Lung Block' or Park-Playground-Which?": Jacob Riis, "City Wildernesses," and the Crusade for "Breathing Spaces" on the Lower East Side
- CHAPTER 5: "'My Poor People Need Homes, Not Parks": James Curry and Working-Class Counterperspectives on Reform
- CONCLUSION: Redemption(?) of the "Lung Block"
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822990017
- OCLC:
- 1443936491
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