Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Typhoid Cultures and Framing the Filth Disease
- 1 A Royal Thanksgiving: Disease and the Victorian Social Body
- 2 A Good Working Theory: Water and the Methods of Outbreak Investigation Before 1880
- 3 Nature’s Not-So-Perfect Food: The Epidemiology of Milk-Borne Typhoid
- 4 Soils, Stools, and Saprophytes: Epidemiology in the Age of Bacteriology
- 5 Typhoid in the Tropics: Imperial Bodies, Warfare, and the Reframing of Typhoid as a Global Disease
- Conclusion: The Afterlife of Victorian Typhoid
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Typhoid Cultures and Framing the Filth Disease
- 1 A Royal Thanksgiving: Disease and the Victorian Social Body
- 2 A Good Working Theory: Water and the Methods of Outbreak Investigation Before 1880
- 3 Nature’s Not-So-Perfect Food: The Epidemiology of Milk-Borne Typhoid
- 4 Soils, Stools, and Saprophytes: Epidemiology in the Age of Bacteriology
- 5 Typhoid in the Tropics: Imperial Bodies, Warfare, and the Reframing of Typhoid as a Global Disease
- Conclusion: The Afterlife of Victorian Typhoid
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Filth DiseaseTyphoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England, pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020