The Cholera Years: The United States in the Years 1832, 1849 and 1866 / Edition 1

by Charles E. Rosenberg

Overview

Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226726793
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	09/01/1968
Edition description:	1
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1: 1832
I. The Epidemic: 1832
II. God's Justice?
III. Or Man's Injustice?
IV. The Medical Profession I
V. Aldermen and Cholera
Part 2: 1849
VI. The Epidemic: 1849
VII. Religion, Science, and Progress
VIII. The Nature of Poverty and the Prevention of Disease
IX. The Medical Profession II
Part 3: 1866
X. America After the War
XI. The Metropolitan Board of Health
XII. The Gospel of Public Health
XIII. Conclusion: The Way We Live Now
Afterword, 1987
Annotated Bibliography
Index