Cholera 1832 The Social Response to an Epidemic Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society Series
Auteur : Morris R. J.
Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British society?s response to the threat of disease. It is the story of an administrative fight to exclude the disease by quarantine and to persuade commerce and working-class people to observe carefully thought-out regulations. The story of one of failure ? of men hampered by lack of information, lack of resources and lack of a convincing scientific explanation. Medical science failed to see that infected water supplies were the major carriers of the epidemic and failed to acknowledge saline infusion (the basis of successful modern treatment) when it was presented to them by an obscure local surgeon in Leith. The social structure of the medical profession was as much a barrier to scientific advance as the technical limitations of statistical method and microscope. These reactions are explained in terms of the expectations and the understanding of those involved as well as in terms of modern medical knowledge and sociological theory.
1. Prologue 2. Approach 3. Sunderland 4. Containment Fails 5. Victims 6. Class, Power and Cholera 7. Religion and Morals 8. Medicine and Science 9. Epilogue 10. Reflections.
R. J. Morris is Professor Emeritus, Economic and Social History at the University of Scotland, UK
Date de parution : 06-2024
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 05-2022
13.8x21.6 cm
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Mots-clés :
Historical UK epidemics; history of public health; Cholera Hospital; social structure medical profession; Sir William Pym; social historians; Central Board; relationship between social class and health; Local Boards; Cholera Morbus; Privy Midden; Mid Summer; Privy Council; God’s Moral Government; Cholera Spread; Follow; Cholera Victim; Uncertain Logic; Young Man; Quarantine Stations; Parish Surgeon; British Medical History; Swan Street; Medical Man’s Ability; Levant Cotton; Cholera Vibrio; Viscount Morpeth; Silver Nitrate Test; Interventionist God; General Board