The Filth Disease: Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England

Jacob  Steere-Williams

doi:10.1017/9781787449459

Shows how the investigation of local outbreaks of typhoid fever in Victorian Britain led to the emergence of the modern discipline of epidemiology as the leading science of public health.

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Typhoid Fever and the Practices of Epidemiology in Victorian England

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-xiv

Introduction: Typhoid Cultures and Framing the Filth Disease
pp 1-29

1 - A Royal Thanksgiving: Disease and the Victorian Social Body
pp 30-76

2 - A Good Working Theory: Water and the Methods of Outbreak Investigation Before 1880
pp 77-127

3 - Nature’s Not-So-Perfect Food: The Epidemiology of Milk-Borne Typhoid
pp 128-171

4 - Soils, Stools, and Saprophytes: Epidemiology in the Age of Bacteriology
pp 172-223

5 - Typhoid in the Tropics: Imperial Bodies, Warfare, and the Reframing of Typhoid as a Global Disease
pp 224-270

Conclusion: The Afterlife of Victorian Typhoid
pp 271-284

Bibliography
pp 285-316

Index
pp 317-326

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