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Title:

Hives of sickness : public health and epidemics in New York City / edited by David Rosner.

Publisher:

Published for the Museum of the City of New York by Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Communicable diseases--New York.--New York.
Disease Outbreaks--history--New York City.
Public Health--history--New York City.
Communicable Diseases--history--New York City.
Health Policy--trends--New York City.

Other Authors:

Rosner, David, 1947-
Museum of the City of New York.

Notes:

"A publication of the Museum of the City of New York"--Page facing t.p. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

When epidemic strikes. "Be safe. Be sure." New York City's experience with epidemic smallpox / Judith Walzer Leavitt. Breeding grounds for disease. Changing patterns of epidemic disease in New York City / Gretchen A. Condran -- Accountability for public health : regulating the housing market in nineteenth-century New York City / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Plagues and prejudice : nativism's construction of disease in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New York City / Alan M. Kraut -- When epidemic strikes. "Be safe. Be sure." New York City's experience with epidemic smallpox / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
The politics of public health in New York City : contrasting styles since 1920 / Daniel M. Fox. The dependent center : the first decade of the AIDS epidemic in New York City / Ronald Bayer -- The city responds. Science, politics, and the art of persuasion : promoting the new scientific medicine in New York City / Elizabeth Fee and Evelynn M. Hammonds -- The politics of public health in New York City : contrasting styles since 1920 / Daniel M. Fox.

ISBN:

9780813521589
0813521580

OCLC:

(OCoLC)30979432

LCCN:

94029784

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)