Public health and politics in the age of reform : cholera, the state, and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain /
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean&...
| Основен автор: | McLean, David, 1949- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Серия: |
International library of historical studies ;
33. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147501 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Public health and politics in the age of reform. |
Съдържание:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Disease, Politics and Poverty in Nineteenth-century Britain; 2. The Boroughs and Unions of South Devon; 3. Naval Towns and Naval Medicine; 4. The Advent of Cholera; 5. The Local Boards of Health; 6. Experiment at Noss; 7. The Epidemic and the Royal Navy Hospital; 8. Litigation, the Press and the Navy; 9. Reaching the People: Controlling the Doctors; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.