The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900

ISBN-13: 9780198203773 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 344 str.

Anne Hardy; Thomas Hardy; Hart Hardy

Opis

Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the many infectious diseases--whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis--in Victorian society. Hardy explores factors which helped to reduce fatality, focusing particularly on preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances affecting the diseases' behavior. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory of modern population growth.

Recenzje

she provides useful insight into 19th century British public attitudes to health and illness and to children ... This study is an ambitious undertaking, and Anne Hardy is to be commended for examining - and trying to make sense of - masses of local medical reports and studies. Her book will prove essential reading for those interested in 19th century public health and/or the McKeown debate, although the case against McKeown is not yet settled.