The filth disease : typhoid fever and the practices of epidemiology in Victorian England /

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"Typhoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain. It was one of the most prolific diseases of the Industrial Revolution. There was a palpable public anxiety about the disease in the Victorian era, no doubt fueled by media cover...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steere-Williams, Jacob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
Temas:
1800-1899
Typhoid fever > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Epidemiology > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Typhoid Fever > history
Typhoid Fever > epidemiology
History, 19th Century
Fièvre typhoïde > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Épidémiologie > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Public health & preventive medicine.
Social & cultural history.
MEDICAL > History.
Epidemiology
Typhoid fever
United Kingdom
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Typhoid Cultures and Framing the Filth Disease; A Royal Thanksgiving: Disease and the Victorian Social Body; A Good Working Theory: Water and the Methods of Outbreak Investigation before 1880; Nature's Not-So Perfect Food: The Epidemiology of Milk-Borne Typhoid; Soils, Stools, and Saprophytes: Epidemiology in the Age of Bacteriology; Typhoid in the Tropics: Imperial Bodies, Warfare, and the Reframing of Typhoid as a Global Disease; The Afterlife of Victorian Typhoid

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