| The perfect food and the filth disease: milk-borne typhoid and epidemiological practice in late Victorian Britain. | |
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PMID: 20231160 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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This article explores the initial set of epidemiological investigations in Victorian Britain that linked typhoid fever to milk from dairy cattle. Because Victorian epidemiologists first recognized the milk-borne route in outbreaks of typhoid fever, these investigations served as a model for later studies of milk-borne scarlet fever, diphtheria, and perhaps tuberculosis. By focusing on epidemiological practices conducted by Medical Inspectors at the Medical Department of the Local Government Board and Medical Officers of Health, I show that Victorian epidemiology was committed to field-based, observational methods that defined the professional nature of the discipline and its theories and practices. Epidemiological investigations of milk-borne typhoid heated up several important public health debates in the second half of the nineteenth century, and demonstrate how Victorian epidemiology was not solely wedded to examining population studies using statistical methods, as historians have typically argued, but also relied on observational case-tracing in individuals, animals, and even environments. |
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Jacob Steere-Williams |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-03-15 |
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Title: Journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences Volume: 65 ISSN: 1468-4373 ISO Abbreviation: J Hist Med Allied Sci Publication Date: 2010 Oct |
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Created Date: 2010-10-06 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0413415 Medline TA: J Hist Med Allied Sci Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 514-45 Citation Subset: IM; Q |
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Program in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. will2019@umn.edu |
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