The Cholera Years : The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Paperback)

from JBD1

Quite a good study of early public health efforts to combat cholera.

from MichaelC.Oliveira

When I first thumbed through the book, I noticed the 18 page bibliography of primary and secondary sources. Intrigued by the documentation and period reviewed, I started the book almost immediately. It does answer many more questions that it raises. And Rosenberg avoids straying from the history ...

from JBD1

Quite a good study of early public health efforts to combat cholera.

from TLCrawford

The Cholera Years: the United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 is only tangentially a medical history. Charles Rosenberg used the opening year of the three worst epidemics of cholera in the United States as lenses through which he could take snapshots of American society. In each year examined the ...

from morbidromantic

In the Republic era of America, people were assaulted daily by their own visions of success, failure, the expectations and weaknesses of a still developing concept of democracy, poverty, and illness. One such illness, Cholera, infected America three times during this period: 1832, 1849, and 1866....