Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform
Subtitle: Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain (International Library of Historical Studies)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781845110697
Subjects: Health systems & services; Public Policy - General; Great Britain - History - 19th Century; History; History - General History; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Infectious Diseases
First sentence: WHEN THE GERMAN scientist Robert Koch identified the cholera bacillus in 1884 he ended a debate which had divided medical opinion in Europe for over half a century.