This book shows how contagionism evolved in eighteenth century Britain and describes the consequences of this evolution. By the late eighteenth century, the Bri

The research of pandemics, epidemics, and pathogens like COVID-19 reaches far beyond the scope of biomedicine. It is not only an objective for the health, polit

A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain Britain had no idea that it would

This edited collection explores disease transmission and the ways that the designed environment has promoted or limited its spread. It discusses the many design

Examines British engagement with the Mediterranean quarantine system to show how fear of disease drew Britain into a Continental biopolity.