{"product_id":"mad-dogs-and-other-new-jessica-wang-9781421409719","title":"Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers: Rabies, Medicine, and Society in an American Metropolis, 1840-1920","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow rabid dogs, the struggles to contain them, and their power over the public imagination intersected with New York City's rise to urban preeminence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRabies 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 \u003ci\u003eMad Dogs and Other New Yorkers\u003c\/i\u003e, Jessica Wang examines the history of this rare but dreaded affliction during a time of rapid urbanization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on a transformative era in medicine, politics, and urban society, Wang uses rabies to survey urban social geography, the place of domesticated animals in the nineteenth-century city, and the world of American medicine. Rabies, she demonstrates, provides an ideal vehicle for exploring physicians' ideas about therapeutics, disease pathology, and the body as well as the global flows of knowledge and therapeutics. Beyond the medical realm, the disease also illuminates the cultural fears and political contestations that evolved in lockstep with New York City's burgeoning cityscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMad Dogs and Other New Yorkers\u003c\/i\u003e offers lay readers and specialists alike the opportunity to contemplate a tumultuous domain of people, animals, and disease against a backdrop of urban growth, medical advancement, and social upheaval. The result is a probing history of medicine that details the social world of New York physicians, their ideas about a rare and perplexing disorder, and the struggles of an ever-changing, ever-challenging urban society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421409712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421409719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2020","brand":"Jessica Wang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43980331974911,"sku":"9781421409719","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_57921014-e0bb-40a1-8fb6-cd27e389e0cb.jpg?v=1683249318","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mad-dogs-and-other-new-jessica-wang-9781421409719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}