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Quarantine!: East European Jewish immigrants and the New York City epidemics of 1892
Howard Markel
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Frontmatter
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List of Figures and Tables (page ix)
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Preface and Acknowledgments (page xi)
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INTRODUCTION The Concept of Quarantine (page 1)
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PART I AVERTING A PESTILENCE The Typhus Fever Epidemic on New York's Lower East Side (page 13)
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CHAPTER 1 The Russian Jews of the SS Massilia (page 15)
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CHAPTER 2 The City Responds to the Threat of Typhus (page 40)
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CHAPTER 3 The Results of the Quarantine (page 60)
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PART II "CHOLERA MAY KNOCK, BUT IT WON'T GET IN!" Cholera, Class, and Quarantine in New York Harbor (page 83)
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CHAPTER 4 Awaiting the Cholera: "Choleria!" (page 85)
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CHAPTER 5 "Knocking Out the Cholera!" (page 101)
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PART III LEGISLATING QUARANTINE Attempting to Restrict Immigration as a Cholera Preventive (page 135)
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CHAPTER 6 Maintaining the Quarantine (page 137)
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CHAPTER 7 The Doctors' Prescription for Quarantine (page 153)
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CHAPTER 8 The Congress Responds (page 166)
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EPILOGUE "The Microbe as Social Leveller" (page 183)
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Notes (page 195)
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Index (page 253)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JAH | 88.3 (Dec. 2001): 1100-1101 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28200112%2988%3A3%3C1100%3AQEEJIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W |
Isis | 89.3 (Sep. 1998): 559-560 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28199809%2989%3A3%3C559%3AQEEJIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
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Published: 1999
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- 9780801855122 (hardcover)
- 9780801861802 (paper)