Simon Finger: 1 book
The Contagious City
The Politics of Public Health in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped...
