This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic & political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera & the politics of public health policy, contributing to current debates about how far & how successfully modernis…
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic & political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera & the politics of public health policy, contributing to current debates about how far & how successfully modernis…
This book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, contributing significantly to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime. It focuses on successive outbreaks of cholera in the city …
This assessment of how Haiti has fared after the 2010 earthquake reveals that the country continues to suffer from poverty, illness, and a broken infrastructure, and examines the factors that prevent aid from reaching people in need.
Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British society's response to the threat of disease. It is the story of an administrative fight to exclude the disease by quarantine and to persuade commerce and working-class people to observe carefully thought-out regulation…
The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, andmidwives.
The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives.
This book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitm…
Pandemics: a very short introduction
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Plague -- Chapter 2: Smallpox -- Chapter 3: Malaria -- Chapter 4: Cholera -- Chapter 5: Tuberculosis -- Chapter 6: Influenza -- Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS -- References -- Further Reading -- Index "The book provides a conc…
