Quarantine!

East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781421443669

Price:
Sale price$64.99
Stock:
Re-stocking soon

By Howard Markel
Imprint:
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date:

Format:
PAPERBACK
Pages:
304

Description

Figures and Tables Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Updated Edition: Revisiting Quarantine! Introduction: The Concept of Quarantine Part I. Averting a Pestilence The Typhus Fever Epidemic on New York's Lower East Side Chapter 1. The Russian Jews of the SS Massilia Chapter 2. The City Responds to the Threat of Typhus Chapter 3. The Results of the Quarantine Part II. "Cholera May Knock, but It Won't Get In!" Cholera, Class, and Quarantine in New York Harbor Chapter 4. Awaiting the Cholera: "Choleria!" Chapter 5. "Knocking Out the Cholera!" Part III. Legislating Quarantine Attempting to Restrict Immigration as a Cholera Preventive Chapter 6. Maintaining the Quarantine Chapter 7. The Doctors' Prescription for Quarantine Chapter 8. The Congress Responds Epilogue: "The Microbe as Social Leveller" Notes Index
Howard Markel, MD, PhD (ANN ARBOR, MI), is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix and When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed.

You may also like

Recently viewed