Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930.(Review)

Journal of Social History | December 22, 2000| | Copyright

Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930. By Evelynn Maxine Hammonds (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. ix plus 299 PP. $39.95).

After some forty years of complacency, AIDS and Ebola awakened our dormant dread of an epidemic disease characterized by sudden onset, gruesome symptoms, and/or swift, excruciating death. This renewed focus on the drama of infectious disease roused an interest in the taming of older, equally scary killers. In Childhood's Deadly Scourge, Evelynn Maxine Hammonds ...

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