The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England 9781648250811

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Автор: Jacob Steere-Williams
Название: The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
ISBN: 9781648250811
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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История Британии и Ирландии

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Эпидемиология и медицинская статистика

История медицины

ISBN-10: 1648250815
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 340
Вес: 0.49 кг.
Дата издания: 23.01.2024
Серия: Rochester studies in medical history
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 35 b/w illus.
Размер: 152 x 229 x 21
Ключевые слова: European history,History of medicine,Public health & preventive medicine,Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901),MEDICAL / History,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
Подзаголовок: Typhoid fever and the practices of epidemiology in victorian england
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public healthTyphoid 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 aboutthe disease in the Victorian era, no doubt fueled by media coverage of major outbreaks across the nation, but also because Queen Victorias husband, Prince Albert, died of the disease in 1861. Their son and heir, Prince Albert Edward, contracted and nearly succumbed to typhoid a decade later in 1871. The Filth Disease shows that typhoid was at the center of a number of critical debates about health, science, and governance. Victorian public health reformers, the book argues, working in central and local government, framed typhoid as the most pressing public health problem in order to persuade local officials to implement sanitary infrastructure to prevent the spread of disease. In this period British epidemiologists uncovered how typhoid is spread via food and water supplies, disrupting the longstanding idea that typhoid was spread via filth. In the process the modern disciple of epidemiology emerged as the chief science of public health. Typhoid was as much a social and political problem as it was a scientific one, and The Filth Disease provides a striking reminder of the cultural context in which infectious diseases strike populations and how scientists study them.

The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, Jacob Steere-Williams