Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920

by Jessica Wang

How rabid dogs, the struggles to contain them, and their power over the public imagination intersected with New York City's rise to urban preeminence.

Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of "Mad dog " possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life. In Mad Dogs and Other...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421409712
• ISBN13: 9781421409719
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.1"