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Table of Contents

Foreword
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

Hives of Sickness Public Health and Epidemics in New York City

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      Publisher MW - Rutgers University Press
      Published 3 January 1995
      ISBN-13 9780813521589
      978-0813521589
      ISBN-10 0813521580
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      Epidemiology and Medical statistics Public health and preventive medicine

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword
      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

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