Hives of sickness : public health and epidemics in New York City

Hives of sickness : public health and epidemics in New York City / edited by David Rosner.

Other author/creator	Rosner, David, 1947-
Other author/creator	Museum of the City of New York.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New Brunswick, N.J. : Published for the Museum of the City of New York by Rutgers University Press, ©1995.
Description	223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Disease Outbreaks--history --New York (State) --New York. Public Health--history --New York (State) --New York. Communicable Diseases--history --New York (State) --New York. Health Policy--trends --New York (State) --New York. History of Medicine. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. Public health--New York (State) --New York --History. Communicable diseases--New York (State) --New York.

Contents	Introduction : "hives of sickness and vice" / David Rosner -- Breeding grounds for disease. Changing patterns of epidemic disease in New York City / Gretchen A. Condran -- Accountability for public health : regulating the housing market in nineteenth-century New York City / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Plagues and prejudice : nativism's construction of disease in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New York City / Alan M. Kraut -- When epidemic strikes. "Be safe. Be sure." New York City's experience with epidemic smallpox / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
Contents	A disease of cleanliness : polio in New York City, 1900-1990 / Naomi Rogers -- The dependent center : the first decade of the AIDS epidemic in New York City / Ronald Bayer -- The city responds. Science, politics, and the art of persuasion : promoting the new scientific medicine in New York City / Elizabeth Fee and Evelynn M. Hammonds -- The politics of public health in New York City : contrasting styles since 1920 / Daniel M. Fox.
General note	"A publication of the Museum of the City of New York"--P. facing t.p.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN	94029784
ISBN	0813521580
ISBN	9780813521589