Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London

This book is a history of London's vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention-isolation. Londoners suffering from infe...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Newsom Kerr, Matthew (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:	1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:	Great Britain-History. History. Cities and towns-History. Social history.
ISBN:	9783319657684
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