ISBN:
9781789384703
,
1789384702
,
9781789384673
,
1789384672
,
9781789384697
,
1789384699
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9781789384680
,
1789384680
Language:
English
Pages:
xxv, 382 pages
,
color illustrations, maps
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25 cm
Edition:
New edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
362.1/042
Keywords:
Epidemics Social aspects
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Urban health
;
Cities and towns
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Epidemics history
;
Cities and towns
;
Epidemics ; Social aspects
;
Urban health
;
Stadt
;
Pandemie
;
Stadtforschung
Abstract:
Preface -- Prologue: Pandemics and Urban Health -- Part 1 Urban Governance: Politics and Management -- 1 Plague in Sibiu and the First Quarantine Plan in Central Europe, 1510 -- Case study: Plague in Sibiu, 1510 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Mughal Governance, Mobility, and Responses to the Plague in Agra, India, 1618-19 -- Case study: Plague in Agra, 1618-19 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Urban Governance, Economic Intervention, and the Plague in Bristol, England, 1665-66 -- Case study: Bubonic plague in Bristol, 1665-66 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Smallpox and the Specter of Mexican Citizenship, 1826 -- Case study: "A thing they call witchcraft": Vaccination in 1826 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Complacency, Confusion, and the Mismanagement of Cholera in York, England, 1832 -- Case study: Cholera in York, 1832 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Cholera, the Roman Aqueduct, and Urban Renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860-1914 -- Case study: The Neapolitan aqueduct -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 The Contested Governance of Border Railways and the Plague of Northeast China, 1910-11 -- Case study: The railway and response to the plague in 1910-11 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Print, Politics, and the Smallpox Epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902-3 -- Case study: Politics and controversies of quarantine and vaccination -- Conclusion -- 9 Colonialism, Racism, and the Government Response to Bubonic Plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895-1910 -- Case study: Government intervention and bubonic plague in Nairobi, 1902-6 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2 Urban Life: Culture and Society -- 10 Women, Social Solidarities, and the Plague in 17th-Century Newcastle, England -- Case study: Women health care workers in Newcastle, 1570-1637 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 The Jewish Ghetto as a Space of Quarantine in Prague, 1713 -- Case study: Quarantine and cultural responses to the plague in Prague, 1713 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Hygiene and Urban Life in the "District of Death" in 19th-Century Istanbul -- Case study: Plague visibility in Galata-Pera -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Religious Rituals and Cholera in the Shrine Cities of 19th-Century Iran -- Case study: Cholera in 19th-century Qom and Mashhad -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 14 Social Life, Illness, and the Marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th Century to the Present -- Case study: Kumasi's markets in public life and public health since 1900 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 15 The City as Field Hospital and the Influenza Epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918-19 -- Case study: Prevention, isolation and treatment of disease in Seattle, 1918 -- Conclusion -- 16 Rural Migrants, Smallpox, and Civic Surgery in 20th-Century Baghdad, Iraq -- Case study: Civic surgery and the campaign to eradicate smallpox -- Conclusion -- Notes.
Abstract:
"Epidemic illnesses--not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena--are as old as cities themselves. The outbreak of COVID-19 in late 2019 brought the effects of epidemic illness on urban life into sharp focus, exposing the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind, Epidemic Urbanism gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines--including history, public health, sociology, anthropology, and medicine--to present historical case studies from across the globe, each demonstrating how cities are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and responses to them, exploit and amplify social inequality in the communities they touch. Illustrated with more than 150 historical images, the essays illuminate the profound, complex ways epidemics have shaped the world around us and convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership." -- Amazon.com
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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