Death in Hamburg : society and politics in the cholera years, 1830-1910
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Death in Hamburg : society and politics in the cholera years, 1830-1910
（Penguin books, . Penguin history）
Penguin, 1990, c1987
Available at 10 libraries
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Originally published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987
Bibliography: p. [593]-623
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Centering on the 1892 cholera epidemic in Hamburg, this study focuses on the social role of science and medicine, of the responsibilities of government to prevent and control disease and the responses of institutions to an epidemic.
Table of Contents
- Part I. THE WORLD THE MERCHANTS MADE: Patricians and Politics
- Fractions of Capital
- Standards of Living
- The Threat from Below. Part 2 THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: Soap and Civilisation
- The Politics of Pollution
- Troubled Waters
- A Varied Diet. Part 3 MATTERS 0F LIFE AND DEATH: Patterns of Mortality
- Doctors Dilemmas
- The Challenge of Cholera
- Empire of Germs. Part 4 THE GREAT EPIDEMIC: From Concealment to Catastrophe
- Healing the Sick
- Fear and Panic
- Guilty Men. Part 5 DIMENSIONS OF INEQUALITY: Income and Class
- Social Geography
- Occupation and Age
- Male and Female. Part 6 REMAKING A WORLD: The Limits of Compassion
- Pettenkofer's Last Stand
- Poverty and the State
- Hamburg, Germany, and the World.
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