Known as the "deadly scourge of childhood", diphtheria was a highly feared disease in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the USA. This is a description of how New York City became the first city in the US to apply laboratory-based advances in bacteriology and immunology to the treatment and prevention of this disease - the first such use of scientific medicine in a public health crisis in the USA. Critical to the successful control of diphtheria, Evelynn Maxine Hammonds argues, were unprecedented efforts to remove the ...
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Known as the "deadly scourge of childhood", diphtheria was a highly feared disease in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the USA. This is a description of how New York City became the first city in the US to apply laboratory-based advances in bacteriology and immunology to the treatment and prevention of this disease - the first such use of scientific medicine in a public health crisis in the USA. Critical to the successful control of diphtheria, Evelynn Maxine Hammonds argues, were unprecedented efforts to remove the stigma associated with the disease and provide access to treatment and preventive vaccines for the entire population at risk. This work shows that the success of the anti-diphtheria programmes in New York City ultimately depended on the perception by physicians and the public that the campaigns were classless, rather than class-conscious, interventions. Important too, was the early recognition by public health leaders that New York City's ethnically diverse population required different strategies for different groups. From the introduction of diphtheria anti-toxin for treating the disease in 1894 to the immunization campaigns of the 1920s, Hammonds examines the debates between elite and rank-and-file physicians, as well as those between public health authorities and laboratory scientists. She shows how public health authorities used the media to exaggerate the efficacy of their approaches in order to justify expanded programmes in disease control. Public health experts, she explains, believed that science gave them the authority to turn the control of diphtheria into a moral good that transcended politics and private interests.
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