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Mad dogs and other New Yorkers : rabies, medicine, and society in an American metropolis, 1840-1920 /

"This book examines the social history of rabies in the context of New York City and its rapid urbanization from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. With rabies as its example, the book sheds new light on the history of human-animal relationships, medical understanding...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wang, Jessica, 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Colección:Animals, history, culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dogs, humans, and the uses of urban space
  • Human and non-human suffering: from animal possession to the art of dying
  • Remedies and materia medica: medical authority, political culture, and empire
  • The lesion of doom: anatomical tradition and the problem of hydrophobia
  • A tale of three laboratories: rabies vaccination and the pasteurization of New York City
  • Dogs and the making of the American state: the politics of animal control.