Industrial illness in cultural context : La maladie de Bradford in local, national and global settings, 1878-1919
Writing about charbon (anthrax) in 1898, the French bacteriologist Albert Besson referred to the disease by another name: la maladie de Bradford. The anthrax bacterium - Bacillus anthracis - had arrived in mid-nineteenth-century Bradford on fleeces imported from abroad, and struck down workers in th...
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University of Leeds
2011
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