Charles E. Rosenberg
Auteur van The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
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The Cholera Years by Charles E. Rosenberg was described as an analysis of the confluence of the medical, intellectual and social history of the three American cholera epidemics – 1832, 1849 and 1866. The attraction of learning about the interweaving the scientific and societal causes of a devastating disease was something I could not resist. Causes, who doesn't want to learn about the inducements and catalysts of dangerous systems?
Rosenberg chooses to focus his discussion on New York City, thus avoiding necessary repetition of explication from city to city. It was only in the populated cities of the 1830s that cholera as an epidemic struck: Boston, Charleston, Chicago, but New York was the largest and most populated at the time.
Causes – improvement in trade and transportation, industrialization; inadequate attention to humane architecture (tenements) and support services for the poor leading to slums; denial of the necessity of a Board of Health and condemnation of the medical profession's theories and warnings, Puritanical belief in the special dispensation of the pious, the temperate, the clean; lack of knowledge of fermentation and enzyme reaction and of scientific habits of mind. That's just some of it.
This is definitely worth your time, a well and clearly-written presentation which reads like a movie camera zoom into 40-some years of American life.… (meer)