Author: Richard Evans
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Publisher: Penguin Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 014303636X
Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910
Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Medical books Death in Hamburg. Medical books Death in Hamburg Society And Politics in the Cholera..., 9780143036364. Death in Hamburg Society And Politics in the Cholera Years, ISBN-13: 9780143036364, ISBN-10: 014303636X
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Death in Hamburg : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780143036364 : 014303636X : 02 Feb 2006 : 'The terrible cholera epidemic of 1892' offers insights into the inner life of a great European city at the height of the industrial age. The whole story of 'the cholera years' is tragically revealing of the age's social inequalities and administrative incompetence; it also offers some disquieting parallels with attitudes to AIDS.
Why were nearly 10000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a "free city" within Germany that was governed by the "English" ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the "cholera years" is, in Richard Evans's hands, tragically revealing of the age's social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompete
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Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the “cholera years” is, in Richard Evans’s hands, tragically revealing of the age’s social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world’s public-health landscape today.
