The filth disease typhoid fever and the practices of epidemiology in Victorian England
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, NY
University of Rochester Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Rochester studies in medical history.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- 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