"A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought . . . this volume is also to be commended for its skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease."—I.B. Cohen, New York Times "The ...
137 J. Smith , Report on the State of York to the Health of Towns Commission ( London , 1845 ) p . 2 . 138 York Courant 4 February 1847 . 139 Ibid . 25 September 1832 . THE FIRST SPASMODIC CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN YORK 1832 29.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Disease and Civilization explores the scientific and political ramifications of thegreat cholera epidemic of 1832, showing how its course and its conceptualization were affected bythe social power relations of the time.
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This is the story of the first cholera epidemic in the Netherlands, based on contemporaneous sources.0Antoinette van der Kuyl is a medical researcher in microbiology at the University of Amsterdam.