Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

  1. David R. Hinthorn, MD
  1. University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas

    Markel H. 262 pages. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; 1997. $29.95. ISBN 0801855128. Order phone 800-537-5487.

    Field of medicine: History of medicine, microbiology, infectious diseases, public health, and legal medicine.

    Audience: Students of the history of medicine and the development of ethics and persons who work in public health, legal medicine, microbiology, or infectious diseases.

    Purpose: To show alternative views of the handling of the 1892-1893 epidemics of typhus and cholera in New York City and …

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    1. Ann Intern Med November 15, 1997 vol. 127 no. 10 950
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