{"product_id":"quarantine-9781421443669","title":"Quarantine","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis riveting story of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892 has been updated with a new preface that tackles the COVID-19 pandemic.   Winner, 2003 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health, American Public Health AssociationIn Quarantine! Howard Markel traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involvedthe public health doctors who diagnosed and treated the victims, the newspaper reporters who covered the stories, the government officials who established and enforced policy, and, most importantly, the immigrants themselves. Drawing on rarely cited stories from the Yiddish American press, immigrant diaries and letters, and official accounts, Markel follows the immigrants on their journey from a squalid and precarious existence in Russia's Pale of Settlement, to their passage in steerage, to New York's Lower East \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures and Tables \u003cbr\u003ePreface to the First Edition\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Updated Edition: Revisiting Quarantine!\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Concept of Quarantine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Averting a Pestilence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Typhus Fever Epidemic on New York's Lower East Side\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. The Russian Jews of the SS Massilia\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. The City Responds to the Threat of Typhus\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Results of the Quarantine \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. \"Cholera May Knock, but It Won't Get In!\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCholera, Class, and Quarantine in New York Harbor\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Awaiting the Cholera: \"Choleria!\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. \"Knocking Out the Cholera!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Legislating Quarantine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAttempting to Restrict Immigration as a Cholera Preventive\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Maintaining the Quarantine\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. The Doctors' Prescription for Quarantine\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Congress Responds\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: \"The Microbe as Social Leveller\"\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408145752407,"sku":"9781421443669","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421443669.jpg?v=1730501754","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/quarantine-9781421443669","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}