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Rabies and the city

Jessica Wang: Mad dogs and other New Yorkers: Rabies, medicine and society in an American metropolis, 1840–1920. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019, xvii + 322pp, $54.95 HB; $54.95 Ebook

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Humphreys, M. Rabies and the city. Metascience 29, 217–220 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-020-00530-2

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