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Typhoid Fever - acute, generalized infection caused by Salmonella typhi. The main sources of infection are contaminated water or milk and, especially in urban communities, food handlers who are carriers. The symptoms of typhoid appear 10 to 14 days after infection; they include high fever, rose-colored spots on the abdomen and chest, diarrhea or constipation, and enlargement of the spleen

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Disease in the Popular American Press: The Case of Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever, and Syphilis, 1870-1920 » Read Now
by Terra Ziporyn. 196 pgs.

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"A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US mass media covered typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis from 1870 to 1920. Ziporyn, a free-lance writer and former American Association for the Advancement of Science mass media fellow, finds consistently high press coverage of typhoid fever...
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"A well-researched, qualitative analysis of how the US mass media covered typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis from 1870 to 1920. Ziporyn, a free-lance writer and former American Association for the Advancement of Science mass media fellow, finds consistently high press coverage of typhoid fever contrasted with media disinterest in diptheria and cautious reporting about syphilis. The press's approaches differed, she explains, because the news media responded to dissimilar social values about typhoid fever, diptheria, and syphilis at the turn of the century. Ziporyn's observations are aided by a thorough, well-footnoted analysis of publications across 14 categories." Choice
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The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine, 1856-1900 (Chap. 6 "Typhoid") » Read Now
by Anne Hardy. 325 pgs.

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The Epidemic Streets represents a major advance in the historical study of death and disease in the nineteenth century. Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the behaviour of the infectious diseases in the Victorian city...
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The Epidemic Streets represents a major advance in the historical study of death and disease in the nineteenth century. Anne Hardy has drawn on a wide range of public health records for a detailed epidemiological investigation of the behaviour of the infectious diseases in the Victorian city. Whooping cough and measles, scarlet fever and diptheria, smallpox, typhus, typhoid, and tuberculosis ravaged millions of families and made life desperately uncertain a hundred years ago; today they have almost ceased to trouble the developed world. Dr Hardy explores thefactors which helped to reduce their fatality, focusing particularly on the role of preventive medicine, and on the local and domestic circumstances which affected the behaviour of the different diseases. This is a significant contribution to the historical debate that arose from Thomas McKeown's theory ofmodern population growth, and it also extends our understanding of the ways in which Victorian society - both lay and medical - coped with the problems of endemic and epidemic infectious disease.
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Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (Chap. 4 "A Plague of Nativism: The Cases of Chick Gin and 'Typhoid Mary'") » Read Now
by Alan M. Kraut. 369 pgs.

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Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues (Chap. 7 "A Clever Pathogen") » Read Now
by Christopher Wills. 324 pgs.

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the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge in deadly outbreaks with such disasterous results. It is our knowledge of their secret lives in the moist and teeming rain forests that gives us hope of taming future epidemics.
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Legal Memories and Amnesias in America's Rhetorical Culture (Chap. 5 "'Typhoid Mary,' Bacteriology, and Progressive Law Courts") » Read Now
by Marouf Hasian Jr. 230 pgs.

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U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays (Chap. 7 "Gendered Expectations: Women and Early Twentieth-Century Public Health") » Read Now
by Linda K. Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris, Kathryn Sklar Kish. 477 pgs.

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...essay Chapter 7 . For nearly a century, Leavitt reports, "Typhoid Mary" has been an abstraction, conveying the belief that women...understanding of the construction of...
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Contagion: Historical and Cultural Studies ("Typhoid Fever at Moorabbin: Sanitation, Epidemic Disease and the Milk Supply" begins on p. 133) » Read Now
by Alison Bashford, Claire Hooker. 241 pgs.

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In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture. Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and...
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In the age of HIV, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the Ebola Virus and BSE, metaphors and experience of contagion are a central concern of government, biomedicine and popular culture. Contagion explores cultural responses of infectious diseases and their biomedical management over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also investigates the use of 'contagion' as a concept in postmodern reconceptualisations of embodied subjectivity.The essays are written from within the fields of cultural studies, biomedical history and critical sociology. The contributors examine the geographies, policies and identities which have been produced in the massive social effort to contain diseases. They explore both social responses to infectious diseases in the past, and contemporary theoretical and biomedical sites for the study of contagion.
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Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology (Discussion of typhoid begins on p. 79) » Read Now
by Kenneth L. Feder, David A. Poirier. 249 pgs.

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Over the last decade, North American archaeologists have become increasingly aware that numerous biological and man-made hazards pose significant health risks for field researchers. The present collection is the first descriptive and analytical volume on the health safety issues that confront Americas archaeological community.