The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866

“It fixates on one city—New York—through three different cholera epidemics. So you can see change over time. You can see cholera going from being seen as a divine punishment, a dread disease against which people had no defence, to something that, by the 1860s, seemed to be a signifier of inadequate public health infrastructure. He shows how it moves from a religious framing to a scientific or political one.” Read more...

Books on Living Through an Epidemic

Alex Chase-Levenson, Historian