Book ID: CBB001420158

Knowledge in the Time of Cholera: The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (2013)

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Whooley, Owen (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: xiii + 307 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, quarantines, and all manner of remedies, before the identity of the dreaded infection was consolidated under the germ theory of disease some sixty years later.

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Authors & Contributors
Tina Travagliante
Fornaciari, Antonio
Giuffra, Valentina
Bratož, Urška
Karimkhanzand, Mostafa
Rus, Dorin-Ioan
Concepts
Epidemics
Cholera
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine and society
Medicine
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
Qajar dynasty, Iran (1794-1925)
Early modern
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Brazil
England
Japan
Italy
San Francisco (California)
Sicily
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