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9781421446448 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy
  • Lazaretto

  • How Philadelphia Used an Unpopular Quarantine Based on Disputed Science
  • How the controversial practice of quarantine saved nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics. In the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever epidemics threatened the survival of Philadelphia, the nation's capital and largest city. In response, the city built a new quarantine station called the Lazaretto downriver from its ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421446448 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $82.99
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  • Local release date: 25/07/2023
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  • Categories: Public health & preventive medicine [MBN]History of medicine [MBX]
9781421425658 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy
  • Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth a

  • Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years later - when the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stink - the public conversation about health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians ......
  • ISBN-13: 9781421425658 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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    AUD $80.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2018
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  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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