Quarantine! : East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 /

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"The author traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involved: the public health doctors who diagnosed and treated those infected, the newspaper reporters who covered the stories, the govern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Markel, Howard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Edition:Updated edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Typhus fever.
Quarantine.
Immigrants > Health and hygiene.
Epidemics.
Cholera.
Cholera > New York (État) > New York.
Typhus exanthematique > New York (État) > New York.
Juifs est-europeens > Sante et hygiene > New York (État) > New York.
Quarantaine > New York (État) > New York.
Epidemics > New York (State) > New York.
Cholera > New York (State) > New York.
Typhus fever > New York (State) > New York.
Immigrants > Health and hygiene > New York (State) > New York.
Jews, East European > Health and hygiene > New York (State) > New York.
Quarantine > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The concept of quarantine
  • The Russian Jews of the SS Massilia
  • The city responds to the threat of typhus
  • The results of the quarantine
  • A waiting the cholera: "choleria!"
  • "Knocking out the cholera!"
  • Maintaining the quarantine
  • The doctors' prescription for quarantine
  • The Congress responds
  • Epilogue: "The microbe as social leveller."

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