Author: Peter Murtough
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Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Condensed History of the Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
Author: Peter Murtough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemics
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Condensed History of the Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878
Author: Peter Murtough
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337614164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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ISBN: 9783337614164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Epidemic Invasions
Author: Mariola Espinosa
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226218139
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. Originating in Cuba, the deadly plague inspired disease-control measures that not only protected U.S. trade interests but also justified the political and economic domination of the island nation from which the pestilence came. By focusing on yellow fever, Epidemic Invasions uncovers for the first time how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries. Yellow fever in Cuba, Mariola Espinosa demonstrates, motivated the United States to declare war against Spain in 1898, and, after the war was won and the disease eradicated, the United States demanded that Cuba pledge in its new constitution to maintain the sanitation standards established during the occupation. By situating the history of the fight against yellow fever within its political, military, and economic context, Espinosa reveals that the U.S. program of sanitation and disease control in Cuba was not a charitable endeavor. Instead, she shows that it was an exercise in colonial public health that served to eliminate threats to the continued expansion of U.S. influence in the world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226218139
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United States to abandon their homes and flee for their lives. Originating in Cuba, the deadly plague inspired disease-control measures that not only protected U.S. trade interests but also justified the political and economic domination of the island nation from which the pestilence came. By focusing on yellow fever, Epidemic Invasions uncovers for the first time how the devastating power of this virus profoundly shaped the relationship between the two countries. Yellow fever in Cuba, Mariola Espinosa demonstrates, motivated the United States to declare war against Spain in 1898, and, after the war was won and the disease eradicated, the United States demanded that Cuba pledge in its new constitution to maintain the sanitation standards established during the occupation. By situating the history of the fight against yellow fever within its political, military, and economic context, Espinosa reveals that the U.S. program of sanitation and disease control in Cuba was not a charitable endeavor. Instead, she shows that it was an exercise in colonial public health that served to eliminate threats to the continued expansion of U.S. influence in the world.
Fever Season
Author: Jeanette Keith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608192229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608192229
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
An account of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic documents how it killed more than 18,000 people in the American South, tracing its particularly catastrophic impact in Memphis, Tennessee, while noting the heroic efforts of people who remained behind to help.
The American Plague
Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425217757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of this killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country—and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With “arresting tales of heroism,” (Publishers Weekly) it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425217757
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of this killer virus. Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country—and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With “arresting tales of heroism,” (Publishers Weekly) it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
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Plague Among the Magnolias
Author: Deanne Stephens Nuwer
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817358501
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Plague Among the Magnolias explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Authors and Subjects
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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