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Quarantine!
East European Jewish immigrants and the New York City epidemics of 1892
By Markel, Howard
- ISBN
- 978-0-80185-512-2
- Publisher
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 1997
A Ph.D. in the history of science, medicine, and technology, Markel is director of the Historical Center for the Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. Here he skillfully explores the social, cultural, medical, and political issues surrounding the quarantine of East European Jewish immigrants during the typhus and cholera epidemics in 1892 New York City. He cites an impressi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
