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Author : John Conolly,Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Cholera
ISBN : BL:A0019881499
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026349580
Author : Boston. Health Dept
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503404575
Author : Sandra Hempel
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783780624
In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in Britain, its repercussions rocked Victorian England - from the filthy lanes of the Sunderland quayside and the squalid streets of Soho, to the great centres of power: the Privy Council, Whitehall and the Royal Medical Colleges. One man - alone and unrecognized - uncovered the truth behind the pandemic and laid the foundations for the modern scientific investigation of today's fatal plagues. John Snow was a reclusive doctor, without money or social position, who had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and work out that cholera was spread through drinking water. The book draws extensively on nineteenth-century medical, political and personal records in order to describe what is both an important breakthrough for medical science and also a dramatic story with a cast of colourful characters, from the heroic to the frighteningly incompetent. The book is also full of fascinating diversions into aspects of medical and social history, from Snow's tending of Queen Victoria in childbirth, to the Dutch microbiologist Leeuwenhoek's breeding of lice in his socks, and from Dickensian children's farms to riotous nineteenth-century anaesthesia parties.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Cholera
ISBN : NYPL:33433011463423
Author : Daniel H. Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Cholera
ISBN : IND:30000035033855
Author : John Conolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Cholera
ISBN : OCLC:37787200
Author : Owen Whooley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226017778
Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later. These cholera outbreaks raised fundamental questions about medical knowledge and its legitimacy, giving fuel to alternative medical sects that used the confusion of the epidemic to challenge both medical orthodoxy and the authority of the still-new American Medical Association. In Knowledge in the Time of Cholera, Owen Whooley tells us the story of those dark days, centering his narrative on rivalries between medical and homeopathic practitioners and bringing to life the battle to control public understanding of disease, professional power, and democratic governance in nineteenth-century America.
Author : Charles E. Rosenberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780226726762
Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new Afterword, Rosenberg discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of The Cholera Years. "A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought . . . this volume is also to be commended for its skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease."βI.B. Cohen, New York Times "The Cholera Years is a masterful analysis of the moral and social interest attached to epidemic disease, providing generally applicable insights into how the connections between social change, changes in knowledge and changes in technical practice may be conceived."βSteven Shapin, Times Literary Supplement "In a way that is all too rarely done, Rosenberg has skillfully interwoven medical, social, and intellectual history to show how medicine and society interacted and changed during the 19th century. The history of medicine here takes its rightful place in the tapestry of human history."βJohn B. Blake, Science
Author : Nathanael Alcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Cholera
ISBN : PSU:000007690945
Author : Boston (Mass.). Committee on Internal Health,Boston (Mass.). Commissioners of Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Cholera
ISBN : UOM:39015046962687
Author : Charles L. Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520938526
Cholera, although it can kill an adult through dehydration in half a day, is easily treated. Yet in 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-Briggs, a Venezuelan public health physician, reveal in their frontline report. Why, they ask in this moving and thought-provoking account, did so many die near the end of the twentieth century from a bacterial infection associated with the premodern past? It was evident that the number of deaths resulted not only from inadequacies in medical services but also from the failure of public health officials to inform residents that cholera was likely to arrive. Less evident were the ways that scientists, officials, and politicians connected representations of infectious diseases with images of social inequality. In Venezuela, cholera was racialized as officials used anthropological notions of "culture" in deflecting blame away from their institutions and onto the victims themselves. The disease, the space of the Orinoco Delta, and the "indigenous ethnic group" who suffered cholera all came to seem somehow synonymous. One of the major threats to people's health worldwide is this deadly cycle of passing the blame. Carefully documenting how stigma, stories, and statistics circulate across borders, this first-rate ethnography demonstrates that the process undermines all the efforts of physicians and public health officials and at the same time contributes catastrophically to epidemics not only of cholera but also of tuberculosis, malaria, AIDS, and other killers. The authors have harnessed their own outrage over what took place during the epidemic and its aftermath in order to make clear the political and human stakes involved in the circulation of narratives, resources, and germs.
Author : Society For The Diffusion Of Useful Knowledge,John Conolly (M.D., D.C.L.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:79564608
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102969995
Author : Sir James Alderson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019655135
This book provides a concise overview of the history and treatment of cholera as observed in Hull. Written by James Alderson, a prominent physician and expert on cholera, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of medicine. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.