UID:
almahu_9949447591802882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781787449459
,
9781800100268
Series Statement:
Rochester studies in medical history
Content:
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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2020.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9781648250026
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781787449459
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787449459/type/BOOK
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)