| #1597626 in Books | The Johns Hopkins University Press | 1999-04-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.51 x5.88l,.73 | File Name: 0801861969 | 240 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| This book was a disappointment. I wanted to learn history of how southern ...|By Dora A. Smith|This book was a disappointment. I wanted to learn history of how southern public health agencies today dysfunctionally handle yellow fever's cousins zika and dengue. I really didn't. The historical details present were a very different time and context and had no clear bearing on|||"Humphreys covers not only the disease's effects on its victims and their families, but also its impact on commerce, government and the scientific community." (Familty Tree Magazine)
|"Humphreys is to be commended for a job well done. This
In the last half of the nineteenth century, yellow fever plagued the American South. It stalked the region's steaming cities, killing its victims with overwhelming hepatitis and hemorrhage. Margaret Humphreys explores the ways in which this tropical disease hampered commerce, frustrated the scientific community, and eventually galvanized local and federal authorities into forming public health boards. She pays particular attention to the various theories for containi...
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