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. 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...

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1. Verfasser: Steere-Williams, Jacob ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch Karte
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Rochester University of Rochester Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Rochester studies in medical history
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 326 Seiten) Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9781787449459
DOI:10.1017/9781787449459

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