From its first appearance in 1832 until the last scares of 1871, cholera aroused fear in British North America. The disease killed 20,000 people and its psychological effects were enormous. Cholera unsettled governments, undermined the medical profession, exposed inadequacies in…
"From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and d…
""Poisoned Eden" analyzes the social, political, and cultural effects of three cholera epidemics that shook the northwestern province of Tucumán, Argentina, and the role of public health in building the Argentine state in the late nineteenth century"--. "In 1895, after enduring…
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