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"This book examines the social history of rabies in the context of NewYork City and its rapid urbanization from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. With rabies as its example, the book sheds new light on the history of human-animal relationships, medical understanding of infectious disease, and living with domesticated animals in cities"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Dogs, humans, and the uses of urban space -- Human and non-human suffering: from animal possession to the art of dying -- Remedies and materia medica: medical authority, political culture, and empire -- The lesion of doom: anatomical tradition and the problem of hydrophobia -- A tale of three laboratories: rabies vaccination and the pasteurization of NewYork City -- Dogs and the making of the American state: the politics of animal control.
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