Quarantine! East European Jewish immigrants and the New York City epidemics of 1892
"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 govern...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press
2022.
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| Edición: | Updated edition |
| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4744535x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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."
