Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 by Howard Markel

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892

Howard Markel

280 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In Quarantine! Howard Markel traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involved—the public health doctors who diagnosed and treated the victims...

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