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Author:   Jessica Wang (Associate Professor of U.S. History, Univ of British Columbia)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781421409719

ISBN 10:   1421409712
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Dogs, Humans, and the Uses of Urban Space Chapter 2. Human and Non-Human Suffering: From Animal Possession to the Art of Dying Chapter 3. Remedies and Materia Medica: Medical Authority, Political Culture, and Empire Chapter 4. The Lesion of Doom: Anatomical Tradition and the Problem of Hydrophobia Chapter 5. A Tale of Three Laboratories: Rabies Vaccination and the Pasteurization of New York City Chapter 6. Dogs and the Making of the American State: The Politics of Animal Control Conclusion Appendix 1. Reports of Dog Bite Victims and Hydrophobia Deaths in the Greater New York City Area Appendix 2. A Note on Primary Sources and Methods Notes Index

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Jessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century. -- Margaret Humphreys * Metascience *

Jessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century. -Margaret Humphreys, Metascience

Jessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century. —Margaret Humphreys, Metascience

Author Information

Jessica Wang is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War.

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