Jacob Steere-Williams

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The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian EnglandHardcover, 15 November 2020

The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England
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Part of Series
Rochester Studies in Medical History
Print Length
340 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Date Published
15 Nov 2020
ISBN-10
1648250025
ISBN-13
9781648250026

Description

Typhoid fever is a food- and water-borne infectious disease that was insidious and omnipresent in Victorian Britain. It was one of the most prolific diseases of the Industrial Revolution. There was a palpable public anxiety about the disease in the Victorian era, no doubt fueled by media coverage of major outbreaks across the nation, but also because Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, died of the disease in 1861. Their son and heir, Prince Albert Edward, contracted and nearly succumbed to typhoid a decade later in 1871.

The Filth Disease shows that typhoid was at the center of a number of critical debates about health, science, and governance. Victorian public health reformers, the book argues, working in central and local government, framed typhoid as the most pressing public health problem in order to persuade local officials to implement sanitary infrastructure to prevent the spread of disease. In this period British epidemiologists uncovered how typhoid is spread via food and water supplies, disrupting the longstanding idea that typhoid was spread via filth. In the process the modern disciple of epidemiology emerged as the chief science of public health. Typhoid was as much a social and political problem as it was a scientific one, and The Filth Disease provides a striking reminder of the cultural context in which infectious diseases strike populations and how scientists study them.

JACOB STEERE-WILLIAMS is Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston.

Product Details

Author:
Jacob Steere-Williams
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 November 2020
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm
ISBN-10:
1648250025
ISBN-13:
9781648250026
Language:
English
Location:
Rochester
Pages:
340
Weight:
625.96 gm

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