UID:
almafu_9960966116002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-80010-026-4
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1-78744-945-9
Serie:
Rochester studies in medical history
Inhalt:
Typhoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain. There was a palpable public anxiety about the disease in the Victorian era, no doubt fueled by media coverage of major outbreaks across the nation, but also because Queen Victoria's 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 centre 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.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: 2020.
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A royal thanksgiving: Disease and the Victorian social body -- A good working theory: Water an 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 -- Conclusion: The afterlife of Victorian typhoid.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-64825-002-5
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781787449459
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787449459/type/BOOK
