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- Book Title
- Childhood's Deadly Scourge : The Campaign to Control Diphtheria i
- ISBN
- 9780801870972
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Childhood's Deadly Scourge : the Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
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Known as the ''deadly scourge of childhood,'' diphtheria was a highly feared disease in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. In New York City alone, thousands of cases were reported each year, with large numbers of deaths. Physicians and public health experts viewed diphtheria as one of the most difficult to treat and control of all childhood diseases. In Childhood's Deadly Scourge, Evelynn M. Hammonds describes how New York City became the first city in the United States to apply laboratory-based advances in bacteriology and immunology to the treatment and prevention of this deadly disease, the first such use of scientific medicine in a public health crisis in this country. Critical to the successful control of diphtheria, she argues, were unprecedented efforts to remove the stigma associated with the disease and provide access to treatment and preventive vaccines for the entire population at risk. By 1930, the successful immunization of thousands of preschool- and school-aged children made evident for the first time the promise and force of the laboratory in infectious disease control. Today, as the threat of AIDS and other new diseases reopens the conflict between the protection of public health and the protection of civil liberties, Childhood's Deadly Scourge reminds us that technical solutions for disease control have complex social implications.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801870976
ISBN-13
9780801870972
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Childhood's Deadly Scourge : the Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
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College Graduate Student
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Hammond's careful analysis... is a fine example of the insights which historical study can offer modern efforts at limiting the miseries of disease in diverse social situations., This book is a lucid account of the first successful battle of the laboratory versus disease. Thoroughly researched, logically organized, and well written, it is a good story well told., Evelynn Hammonds has produced a work very sensitive to both the suffering caused by diphtheria and the successes brought on by scientific advance, while demonstrating that those successes were contingent on factors at work in the society at large., "A tightly focused study... set apart from the recent round of histories of infectious disease." -- Georgina Feldberg, Journal of American History, "Hammond's careful analysis... is a fine example of the insights which historical study can offer modern efforts at limiting the miseries of disease in diverse social situations." -- Anne Hardy, Medical History
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Public Health, Infectious Diseases, History
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Yes
Genre
Science, Medical
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