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The cholera years : the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 / Charles E. Rosenberg ; with a new afterword.
- Title
- The cholera years : the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 / Charles E. Rosenberg ; with a new afterword.
- Author
- Rosenberg, Charles E.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1987.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RC131.A2 R67 1987 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 265 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Explores how the cholera epidemics of 1832, 1849, and 1866 changed the medical and social history of the nineteenth century.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 243-260.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The epidemic : 1832 -- 2. God's justice? -- 3. Or man's injustice? -- 4. The medical profession I -- 5. aldermen and cholera -- 6. The epidemic : 1849 -- 7. Religion, science, and progress -- 8. The nature of poverty and the prevention of disease -- 9. The medical profession II -- 10. America after the war -- 11. The Metropolitan Board of Health -- 12. The gospel of public health -- 13. Conclusion : the way we live now.
- ISBN
- 0226726770 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^87172396^
- OCLC
- 17301276
- SCSB-12259733
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library