Rationalizing epidemics : meanings and uses of American Indian mortality since 1600 /

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"In Rationalizing Epidemics, David Jones examines crucial episodes in this history: Puritan responses to Indian depopulation in the seventeenth century; attempts to spread or prevent smallpox on the Western frontier in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; tuberculosis campaigns on the Sioux...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jones, David S. (David Shumway) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Mortality > History.
Indians of North America > Diseases > Epidemiology > History.
Mortality.
Indians of North America > Diseases > History.
Epidemics > United States > History.
Disease Outbreaks > history
Indians, North American > history
Smallpox > history
Mortality
Socioeconomic Factors
Tuberculosis > history
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Mortalité > Histoire.
Peuples autochtones > États-Unis > Maladies > Histoire.
Épidémies > États-Unis > Histoire.
Mortalité.
mortality.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
MEDICAL > Epidemiology.
HISTORY > Native American.
Indians of North America > Diseases
Epidemics
Indians of North America > Mortality
Indianen.
Sterfte.
Epidemieën.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Expecting providence
  • 2. Meanings of depopulation
  • 3. Frontiers of smallpox
  • 4. Using smallpox
  • 5. Race to extinction
  • 6. Impossible responsibilities
  • 7. Pursuit of efficacy
  • 8. Experiments at many farms.

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