Quarantine! East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 |
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| Author:
| Markel, Howard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8018-6180-2 |
| Publication Date: | May 1999 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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''Quarantine! unites the best of the two worlds of social history and clinical history in a narrative style so personal and at times gripping that a reader forgets that the book is meant primarily to be a scholarly text . . . Markel is as much spinning a complex yarn as he is writing a scrupulously researched chronicle.''--Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., ......
''Quarantine! unites the best of the two worlds of social history and clinical history in a narrative style so personal and at times gripping that a reader forgets that the book is meant primarily to be a scholarly text . . . Markel is as much spinning a complex yarn as he is writing a scrupulously researched chronicle.''--Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., ......