Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892: Markel, Howard: 9780801861802: Amazon.com: Books

Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 1St Edition

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Winner of the Arthur Viseltear Award for Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health in the Medical Care Section from the American Public Health Association

In Quarantine! Howard Markel traces the course of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892. The story is told from the point of view of those involved―the public health doctors who diagnosed and treated the victims, the newspaper reporters who covered the stories, the government officials who established and enforced policy, and, most importantly, the immigrants themselves. Drawing on rarely cited stories from the Yiddish American press, immigrant diaries and letters, and official accounts, Markel follows the immigrants on their journey from a squalid and precarious existence in Russia's Pale of Settlement, to their passage in steerage, to New York's Lower East Side, to the city's quarantine islands. At a time of renewed anti-immigrant sentiment and newly emerging infectious diseases, Quarantine! provides a historical context for considering some of the significant problems that face American society today.

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Skillfully explores the social, cultural, medical, and political issues surrounding the quarantine of East European Jewish immigrants during the typhus and cholera epidemics in 1892 New York.

― Library Journal

Insightful . . . fine and well-written.

― Journal of American History

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.

― New Republic

Beautifully written and thoroughly researched . . . This is a fine piece of history with a timely and thoughtful message; it deserves a wide readership among both health care professionals and professional historians.

― New England Journal of Medicine

One of the major strengths of the book is the balance between the social construction of disease and the biological realities of illness . . . Quarantine! therefore provides an important cautionary tale not only for historians, but also for medical professionals who need to deal with modern epidemics in a rational and humane manner.

― New York History

With vivid brush strokes Markel sketches in many of the colorful personalities who figured in his tale . . . Quarantine! is a fascinating and moving account.

― Pakn Treger

A remarkable book, uniting the best of the two worlds of social history and clinical history and yet so gripping in narrative style that it kept me fascinated until the very end. Markel is to be congratulated on his ability to write engagingly for a wide variety of readers, while making a major scholarly contribution to the field that continues to be enriched by this work and his example.

-- Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, author of How We Die

Markel does the best job I have seen of depicting the experience of the quarantined―as well as explaining something of the political and etiological/prophylactic debates that framed and legitimated the quarantine itself. Along the way he makes substantive contributions to Jewish history, urban history, and public health history.

-- Charles E. Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now

About the Author

Howard Markel, MD, PhD (ANN ARBOR, MI), is the George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine and the director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books, including The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix and When Germs Travel: Six Major Epidemics That Have Invaded America and the Fears They Have Unleashed.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; 1St Edition (May 17, 1999)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801861802
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801861802
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.68 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,103,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #282 in Infectious Diseases (Books)
- #368 in History of Medicine (Books)
- #417 in Epidemiology (Books)

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Debbie REidbord

It was actually very depressing.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2018

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I was looking for an overall history, and the book only stayed on one subject and that was the Jewish ghetto of NYC.

Students beware!

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2015

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I wish the eBooks had better ways of marking the page numbers!

Patricia S. Dumas

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2007

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I couldn't even get past the first 50 pages.. dull...

I need some chicken soup after this one.

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Stephen Quatrano

Makes infectious disease and public health of 19th Century interesting and timely

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2007

This is a really interesting account of what might seem like an obscure and narrow topic. But Markel handles this sensitive subject beautifully and manages to balance the specifics of individual experience with general patterns and trends which we can still recognize today in debates about HIV/AIDS and global warming, for example.

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