Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892
by Howard Markel
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At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering some of the significant problems that face American society today.Tags
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Howard Markel is Director, Historical Center for the Health Sciences, George E. Wantz Professor of the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan Medical School.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Science & Nature
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- 614.51 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Epidemics, Poisons, Alternative Medicine Incidence of and public measures to prevent specific diseases and kinds of diseases Salmonella infections, bacillary diseases, clostridium infections, diphtheria, cholera, dysenteries, influenza
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- RA667 .N7 .M37 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Epidemics. Epidemiology. Quarantine. Disinfection
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