Jessica Wang is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War.

Jessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century.—Margaret Humphreys, Metascience

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Dogs, Humans, and the Uses of Urban SpaceChapter 2. Human and Non-Human Suffering: From Animal Possession to the Art of DyingChapter 3. Remedies and Materia Medica: Medical Authority, Political Culture, and EmpireChapter 4. The Lesion of Doom: Anatomical Tradition and the Problem of HydrophobiaChapter 5. A Tale of Three Laboratories: Rabies Vaccination and the Pasteurization of New York CityChapter 6. Dogs and the Making of the American State: The Politics of Animal ControlConclusionAppendix 1. Reports of Dog Bite Victims and Hydrophobia Deaths in the Greater New York City AreaAppendix 2. A Note on Primary Sources and MethodsNotesIndex

Jessica Wang is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War.

Jessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century.—Margaret Humphreys, Metascience

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Dogs, Humans, and the Uses of Urban SpaceChapter 2. Human and Non-Human Suffering: From Animal Possession to the Art of DyingChapter 3. Remedies and Materia Medica: Medical Authority, Political Culture, and EmpireChapter 4. The Lesion of Doom: Anatomical Tradition and the Problem of HydrophobiaChapter 5. A Tale of Three Laboratories: Rabies Vaccination and the Pasteurization of New York CityChapter 6. Dogs and the Making of the American State: The Politics of Animal ControlConclusionAppendix 1. Reports of Dog Bite Victims and Hydrophobia Deaths in the Greater New York City AreaAppendix 2. A Note on Primary Sources and MethodsNotesIndex

Jessica Wang is an associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of American Science in an Age of Anxiety: Scientists, Anticommunism, and the Cold War.

Jessica Wang's account of rabies in New York during the years between 1840 and 1920 describes the terror of this disease and the introduction of prophylaxis against it. Wang recognizes that we must understand infectious diseases both as products of biological agents as well as social events shaped by human emotions, experiences, disruptions, and institutional interventions, public and private. She nicely parses concepts of disease-identity as they changed over time, from early-nineteenth-century ideas about poisons to the emergence of germ theory in the final decades of the century.—Margaret Humphreys, Metascience

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1. Dogs, Humans, and the Uses of Urban SpaceChapter 2. Human and Non-Human Suffering: From Animal Possession to the Art of DyingChapter 3. Remedies and Materia Medica: Medical Authority, Political Culture, and EmpireChapter 4. The Lesion of Doom: Anatomical Tradition and the Problem of HydrophobiaChapter 5. A Tale of Three Laboratories: Rabies Vaccination and the Pasteurization of New York CityChapter 6. Dogs and the Making of the American State: The Politics of Animal ControlConclusionAppendix 1. Reports of Dog Bite Victims and Hydrophobia Deaths in the Greater New York City AreaAppendix 2. A Note on Primary Sources and MethodsNotesIndex