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What does modern investigation and experience teach about preventing epidemic diseases?
What does modern investigation and experience teach about preventing epidemic diseases?
What can confinement in a foul atmosphere potentially do to common fever?
What can confinement in a foul atmosphere potentially do to common fever?
What did the 'sanitary movement' led by Edwin Chadwick primarily focus on?
What did the 'sanitary movement' led by Edwin Chadwick primarily focus on?
What type of regulatory intervention by the state was suggested by the 'sanitary movement'?
What type of regulatory intervention by the state was suggested by the 'sanitary movement'?
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How does the text propose to render the importation of disease between countries highly improbable?
How does the text propose to render the importation of disease between countries highly improbable?
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What is the only means of preventing the origin and spread of epidemic disease?
What is the only means of preventing the origin and spread of epidemic disease?
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What prompted a re-evaluation of the contagionist theory in the eighteenth century?
What prompted a re-evaluation of the contagionist theory in the eighteenth century?
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What impact did cholera have on the nineteenth-century mentality?
What impact did cholera have on the nineteenth-century mentality?
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What concept did conditions like leprosy and plague reinforce from ancient to early modern times?
What concept did conditions like leprosy and plague reinforce from ancient to early modern times?
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Why were quarantine and isolation measures initially employed to contain the spread of cholera?
Why were quarantine and isolation measures initially employed to contain the spread of cholera?
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Why did quarantines become a source of losses for the growing class of merchants and industrialists?
Why did quarantines become a source of losses for the growing class of merchants and industrialists?
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Which disease had a significant impact on nineteenth-century mentality due to its spread and resistance to traditional measures?
Which disease had a significant impact on nineteenth-century mentality due to its spread and resistance to traditional measures?
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How did contagionism relate to quarantines and their bureaucracy?
How did contagionism relate to quarantines and their bureaucracy?
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What did critics of the contagionist theory view it as?
What did critics of the contagionist theory view it as?
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What was the perception of contagionism by liberals aiming to reduce state interference?
What was the perception of contagionism by liberals aiming to reduce state interference?
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Why was the contagionist theory 'held up to ridicule' according to some critics?
Why was the contagionist theory 'held up to ridicule' according to some critics?
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How did conditions like leprosy and plague influence conceptions of the state's role?
How did conditions like leprosy and plague influence conceptions of the state's role?
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Which aspect led to quarantines being perceived as a limitation by merchants and industrialists?
Which aspect led to quarantines being perceived as a limitation by merchants and industrialists?
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