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Title Epidemic urbanism : contagious diseases in global cities / edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq
Published Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect Books Ltd, 2021
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Contents Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Pandemics and Urban Health -- Part 1 Urban Governance: Politics and Management -- 1 Plague in Sibiu and the First Quarantine Plan in Central Europe, 1510 -- Case study: Plague in Sibiu, 1510 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Mughal Governance, Mobility, and Responses to the Plague in Agra, India, 1618-19 -- Case study: Plague in Agra, 1618-19 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Urban Governance, Economic Intervention, and the Plague in Bristol, England, 1665-66
Case study: Bubonic plague in Bristol, 1665-66 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Smallpox and the Specter of Mexican Citizenship, 1826 -- Case study: "A thing they call witchcraft": Vaccination in 1826 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Complacency, Confusion, and the Mismanagement of Cholera in York, England, 1832 -- Case study: Cholera in York, 1832 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Cholera, the Roman Aqueduct, and Urban Renewal in Naples, Italy, 1860-1914 -- Case study: The Neapolitan aqueduct -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 The Contested Governance of Border Railways and the Plague of Northeast China, 1910-11
Case study: The railway and response to the plague in 1910-11 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 Print, Politics, and the Smallpox Epidemic in Terre Haute, USA, 1902-3 -- Case study: Politics and controversies of quarantine and vaccination -- Conclusion -- 9 Colonialism, Racism, and the Government Response to Bubonic Plague in Nairobi, Kenya, 1895-1910 -- Case study: Government intervention and bubonic plague in Nairobi, 1902-6 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2 Urban Life: Culture and Society -- 10 Women, Social Solidarities, and the Plague in 17th-Century Newcastle, England
Case study: Women health care workers in Newcastle, 1570-1637 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 The Jewish Ghetto as a Space of Quarantine in Prague, 1713 -- Case study: Quarantine and cultural responses to the plague in Prague, 1713 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 12 Hygiene and Urban Life in the "District of Death" in 19th-Century Istanbul -- Case study: Plague visibility in Galata-Pera -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 13 Religious Rituals and Cholera in the Shrine Cities of 19th-Century Iran -- Case study: Cholera in 19th-century Qom and Mashhad -- Conclusion -- Notes
14 Social Life, Illness, and the Marketplace in Kumasi, Ghana, from the 20th Century to the Present -- Case study: Kumasi's markets in public life and public health since 1900 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 15 The City as Field Hospital and the Influenza Epidemic in Seattle, USA, 1918-19 -- Case study: Prevention, isolation and treatment of disease in Seattle, 1918 -- Conclusion -- 16 Rural Migrants, Smallpox, and Civic Surgery in 20th-Century Baghdad, Iraq -- Case study: Civic surgery and the campaign to eradicate smallpox -- Conclusion -- Notes
Summary The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience, and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world. 150 b/w illus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2021)
Subject Communicable diseases -- Social aspects -- History
Urban health -- History
City and town life -- Health aspects
ARCHITECTURE / History / General
Communicable diseases -- Social aspects
Urban health
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gharipour, Mohammad, editor.
DeClercq, Caitlin, editor
ISBN 9781789384680
1789384680
9781789384697
1789384699