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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments : Cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 /

"Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the disease, and its causes were bitterly disputed. What experts did agree on was that the environment played a crucial role in the sites wh...

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Autor principal: Zeheter, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cholera and the Colonial State in Urban Environments; Part I. First Encounters; 1. Strategies of Treatment: Madras, 1818-1833; 2. Strategies of Control: Quebec City, 1832-1834; Part II. Integrating Sanitation; 3. Frequent Visitations: Quebec City, 1840-1854; 4. The Advent of Sanitarianism: Madras, 1840-1857; 5. Sanitary Consensus at Last: Madras, 1858-1883; Part III. Bacteriology and the Promise of Clarity; 6. Finding the Comma Bacillus: Bacteriology in Madras and Quebec City, 1865-1910.
  • Conclusion: The Colonial State and the Elusive Consensus Regarding CholeraNotes; Bibliography; Index.