Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 26)

Cliff, Andrew; Haggett, Peter; and Smallman-Raynor, Matthew

ISBN 10: 052147860X / ISBN 13: 9780521478601

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998

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A light, unobtrusive bump to top corner has left a little creasing in top corner of front cover. Spine not creased. Includes appendices, end-notes, references and index. 469pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deciphering Global Epidemics: Analytical Approaches to the Disease Records of World Cities, 1888-1912 (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography 26)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052147860X
• ISBN 13: 9780521478601
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
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Synopsis

Using data collected for 350 cities from around the world, the authors use a variety of analytical methods to provide a global picture of what was happening to infectious epidemic diseases at a critical period in urban evolution on the international stage. The diseases considered are diphtheria, enteric fever, measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, and whooping cough. To place the results in a wider time context, other data are used to look both backwards and forwards for nearly a century on either side of the twenty-five-year time window. The book presents a number of results that may be interpreted in the context of debates on the causes of long-term mortality decline from these infectious diseases. It will be of interest to students of demography, history of medicine, and economic history as well as to researchers already active in these fields.

Review

"...an important contribution to the still thin area of historical epidemiology..." Vincent J. Knapp, American Historical Review

"This work, which folds together the fields of geopgraphy, history, demography, economics, epidemiology, and public health (among others), is interdisciplinary history at its best." Kenneth F. Kiple, Journal of Interdisciplinary History