| Edition |
Updated edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The concept of quarantine -- The Russian Jews of the SS Massilia --The city responds to the threat of typhus --The results of the quarantine --A waiting the cholera: "choleria!" -- "Knocking out the cholera!" -- Maintaining the quarantine --The doctors' prescription for quarantine --The Congress responds -- Epilogue: "The microbe as social leveller." |
| Summary |
"The author traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involved: the public health doctors who diagnosed and treated those infected, the newspaper reporters who covered the stories, the government officials who established and enforced policy, and, most importantly, the immigrants themselves who contracted the diseases"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Quarantine -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Quarantine. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Jews, East European -- Health and hygiene -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Jews, East European. |
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New York (State) |
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Immigrants -- Health and hygiene -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Immigrants -- Health and hygiene. |
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Immigrants. |
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Typhus fever -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Typhus fever. |
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Cholera -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Cholera. |
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Epidemics -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Epidemics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Markel, Howard. Quarantine! Updated edition. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022 9781421443669 (DLC) 2021026355 (OCoLC)1260169385 |
| ISBN |
9781421443676 (electronic book) |
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1421443678 (electronic book) |
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142144366X (paperback) |
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9781421443669 (paperback) |
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