Description
Table of ContentsForeword
Robert R. Macdonald
Introduction: ``Hives of Sickness and Vice''
David Rosner
PART I Breeding Grounds for Disease
Changing Patterns of Epidemic Disease in New York City
Gretchen A. Condran
Accountability for Public Health: Regulating the Housing Market in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Elizabeth Blackmar
Plagues and Prejudice: Nativism's Construction of Disease in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century New York City
Alan M. Kraut
PART II When Epidemic Strikes
"Be Safe. Be Sure. '': New York City's Experience with Epidemic Smallpox
Judith Walzer Leavitt
A Disease of Cleanliness: Polio in New York City, 1900--1990
Naomi Rogers
The Dependent Center: The First Decade of the AIDS Epidemic in New York City
Ronald Bayer
PART III The City Responds
Science, Politics, and the Art of Persuasion: Promoting the New Scientific Medicine in New York City
Elizabeth Fee
Evelynn M. Hammonds
The Politics of Public Health in the New York City: Contrasting Styles Since 1920
Daniel M. Fox
Notes on Contributors
Index
