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By Howard Markel. 262 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. $29.95. ISBN 0-8018-5512-8.

Epidemic diseases have inspired many fine works of historical scholarship, including Charles Rosenberg's The Cholera Years (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962) and Richard Evans's Death in Hamburg (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987). Howard Markel's excellent study of two 1892 epidemics in New York City is a welcome addition to this genre of medical history. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, Quarantine! will appeal to both general readers and specialists in the field.

Markel tells a compelling story of two epidemics that became tragically linked to one particular immigrant group — the Eastern European Jews. Fleeing from the starvation and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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