The Filth Disease - Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England

Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health

List of contents

Typhoid Cultures and Framing the Filth Disease
A Royal Thanksgiving: Disease and the Victorian Social Body
A Good Working Theory: Water and the Methods of Outbreak Investigation before 1880
Nature's Not-So Perfect Food: The Epidemiology of Milk-Borne Typhoid
Soils, Stools, and Saprophytes: Epidemiology in the Age of Bacteriology
Typhoid in the Tropics: Imperial Bodies, Warfare, and the Reframing of Typhoid as a Global Disease
The Afterlife of Victorian Typhoid

About the author

JACOB STEERE-WILLIAMS is an Associate professor of history at the College of Charleston. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota in 2011.

Summary

Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health

Product details

• Authors: Dr Jacob (Royalty Account) Steere-Williams, Jacob Steere-Williams, Jacob (Royalty Account) Steere-Williams
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781648250026
• ISBN: 978-1-64825-002-6
• No. of pages: 340
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 158 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 608 g
• Illustrations: 35 b/w illus.
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous