A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.Parr, in 1808, saw aquot;miasmaquot; as a kind of contagion: aquot;Contagion, then, exists in the atmosphere; and we know distinctly but of one kind, viz., marsh miasmata.aquot; He suggested also that jail fever arose from miasmata pervading the jail; the aquot;human anbsp;...
Title | : | Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick |
Author | : | Christopher Hamlin |
Publisher | : | Cambridge University Press - 1998-02-13 |
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