Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South /

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"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 million. The full scale of the epidemic and the tentative, troubled southern respo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellis, John H. (John Hubert), 1931-2008 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [1992]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yellow fever.
Public health.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
Sante publique > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Fievre jaune > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Yellow Fever > history
Public Health > history
Public health > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Yellow fever > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Southern States.
Southeastern United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings of the public health movement
  • The necropolitan South
  • The epidemic of 1-- The quest for national health legislation
  • The New Orleans Sanitary Association
  • Tales of romance from Memphis
  • The sanitary question in Atlanta
  • Public health in the New South.

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