Plague Among the Magnolias : The 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Mississippi /

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Deanne Stephens Nuwer explores the social, political, racial, and economic consequences of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi. A mild winter, a long spring, and a torrid summer produced conditions favoring the Aedes aegypti and spread of fever. In late July New Orleans newspapers reported...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Nuwer, Deanne
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Epidemie
Gelbfieber
Yellow fever.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Fievre jaune > Mississippi > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Public Health Practice > history
History, 19th Century
Disease Outbreaks > history
Yellow Fever > history
Yellow fever > Mississippi > History > 19th century.
Staat Mississippi
Mississippi.
Mississippi
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Mississippi in the 1870s
  • Yellow fever's causes, symptoms, and treatments
  • The fever arrives
  • Responses to yellow fever
  • The human suffering
  • Mississippi and the affirmation of antebellum values
  • Yellow fever departs
  • Conclusion.

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