Mad dogs and other New Yorkers : rabies, medicine, and society in an American metropolis, 1840-1920 / Jessica Wang.
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TextSeries: Animals, history, culturePublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781421409726
- 1421409720
- Rabies -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Rabies in dogs -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Zoonoses -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Communicable diseases -- Diagnosis -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Communicable diseases -- Prevention
- Public health -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Human-animal relationships -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Animal welfare -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
- Rabies
- Public health
- Dogs
- Rabies
- Public Health
- Dogs
- New York City
- Rage -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire
- Zoonoses -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire
- Maladies infectieuses -- Prévention
- Santé publique -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire
- Relations homme-animal -- New York (État) -- New York -- Histoire
- Rage
- Santé publique
- Chiens
- public health
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- Animal welfare
- Communicable diseases -- Diagnosis
- Communicable diseases -- Prevention
- Human-animal relationships
- Public health
- Rabies
- Rabies in dogs
- Zoonoses
- New York (State) -- New York
- 636.089/4563097471 23
- RA644.R3 W36 2019eb
- WC 550
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"This book examines the social history of rabies in the context of New York City and its rapid urbanization from the mid-nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. With rabies as its example, the book sheds new light on the history of human-animal relationships, medical understanding of infectious disease, and living with domesticated animals in cities"-- Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dogs, humans, and the uses of urban space -- Human and non-human suffering: from animal possession to the art of dying -- Remedies and materia medica: medical authority, political culture, and empire -- The lesion of doom: anatomical tradition and the problem of hydrophobia -- A tale of three laboratories: rabies vaccination and the pasteurization of New York City -- Dogs and the making of the American state: the politics of animal control.
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