Title Mad dogs and other New Yorkers : rabies, medicine, and society in an American metropolis, 1840-1920 / Jessica Wang.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Animals, history, culture
	Animals, history, culture.
Summary	"This book examines the social history of rabies in the context of New York 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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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 New York City -- Dogs and the making of the American state: the politics of animal control.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Rabies -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Rabies.
	New York (State) -- New York.
	History.
	Rabies in dogs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Rabies in dogs.
	Zoonoses -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Zoonoses.
	Communicable diseases -- Diagnosis -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Communicable diseases -- Diagnosis.
	Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
	Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
	Public health -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Public health.
	Human-animal relationships -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Human-animal relationships.
	Animal welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
	Animal welfare.
	New York City.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Wang, Jessica, 1967- Mad dogs and other New Yorkers. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019 9781421409719 (DLC) 2018054663 (OCoLC)1081336828
ISBN	9781421409726 (electronic book)
	1421409720 (electronic book)
	9781421409719
	1421409712

Title Mad dogs and other New Yorkers : rabies, medicine, and society in an American metropolis, 1840-1920 / Jessica Wang.

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