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Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the many infectious diseases--whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis--in Victorian society. Hardy explores factors which helped to reduce fatality, focusing particularly on preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances affecting the diseases' behavior. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory of modern population growth.*If this is not the "The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Diseases and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Nov 19, 2024 12:47 +08.