- Hardcover: 338 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1st Edition edition (21 Oct 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198203772
- ISBN-13: 978-0198203773
- Product Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,517,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"In its broadest terms, one of the issues engaging historians of medicine is whether the abatement of the morality rate for infectious diseases in urban areas after 1859 can be attributed to better nutrition...or to the involvement of the government in public health issues....The depth and range of Hardy's analysis mark this book as one of the most significant contributions to this ongoing debate." --Choice
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The Epidemic Streets represents a major advance in the historical study of death and disease in the nineteenth century. Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the behaviour of the infectious diseases in the Victorian city. Whooping cough and measles, scarlet fever and diptheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain a hundred years ago; today they have almost ceased to trouble the developed world. Dr Hardy explores thefactors which helped to reduce their fatality, focusing particularly on the role of preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances which affected the behaviour of the different diseases. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory ofmodern population growth, and it also extends our understanding of the ways in which Victorian society - both lay and medical - coped with the problems of endemic and epidemic infectious disease.
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