Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York by James Colgrove

Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York

James Colgrove

343 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction informative slow-paced
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An insightful chronicle of the changing public health demands in New York City. The first permanent Board of Health in the United States was created in response to a cholera outbreak in New York City in 1866. By the mid-twentieth century, thanks t...

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