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This book is a history of London’s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Unprecedented in size and scope, this public infrastructure inaugurated a new technology of disease prevention—isolation. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance

Title : Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
Author : Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Language : en
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