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Download or read book Lazaretto written by David S. Barnes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the controversial practice of quarantine saved nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics. In the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever epidemics threatened the survival of Philadelphia, the nation's capital and largest city. In response, the city built a new quarantine station called the Lazaretto downriver from its port. From 1801 to 1895, a strict quarantine was enforced there to protect the city against yellow fever, cholera, typhus, and other diseases. At the time, the science behind quarantine was hotly contested, and the Board of Health in Philadelphia was plagued by internal conflicts and political resistance. In Lazaretto, David Barnes tells the story of how a blend of pragmatism, improvisation, and humane care succeeded in treating seemingly incurable diseases and preventing further outbreaks. Barnes shares the lessons of the Lazaretto through a series of tragic and inspiring true stories of people caught up in the painful ordeal of quarantine. They include a nine-year-old girl enslaved in West Africa and freed upon arrival in Philadelphia, an eleven-year-old orphan boy who survived yellow fever only to be scapegoated for starting an epidemic, and a grieving widow who saved the Lazaretto in the midst of catastrophe. Spanning a turbulent century of immigration, urban growth, and social transformation, Lazaretto takes readers inside the life-and-death debates and ordinary heroism that saved Philadelphia when its survival as a city was at stake. Amid the controversy and tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic, this surprising reappraisal of America's historic struggle against deadly epidemics reminds us not to neglect old knowledge and skills in our rush to embrace the new.
Book Synopsis Lazaretto #1 by : Clay McLeod Chapman
Download or read book Lazaretto #1 written by Clay McLeod Chapman and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a pandemic strikes, a dorm complex at a small American college is quarantined with all of the students trapped within. What first starts out as youthful freedom from authority soon devolves into a violent new society—it's Lord of the Flies on a college campus. From writer Clay McLeod Chapman (Spider-Verse, Ultimate Spider-Man, American Vampire, Vertigo Quarterly), whose most recent play, “Stump Speeches,” was a New York Times Critics' Pick; and introducing artist Jey Levang.
Book Synopsis Reminiscences of childhood at Inverkeithing, or Life at a lazaretto by : James Simson
Download or read book Reminiscences of childhood at Inverkeithing, or Life at a lazaretto written by James Simson and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis CHILDHOOD AT INVERKEITHING OR LIFE AT A LAZARETTO by : JAMES SIMSON
Download or read book CHILDHOOD AT INVERKEITHING OR LIFE AT A LAZARETTO written by JAMES SIMSON and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Account of the Lazaretto in the Island of Madeira, with an enquiry into the various diseases called leprosy, in sacred and profane writers ... Extracts from the second edition of Observations on Morbid Poisons. [With plates.] by : Joseph ADAMS (M.D., F.L.S.)
Download or read book Account of the Lazaretto in the Island of Madeira, with an enquiry into the various diseases called leprosy, in sacred and profane writers ... Extracts from the second edition of Observations on Morbid Poisons. [With plates.] written by Joseph ADAMS (M.D., F.L.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lazaretto by : Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Download or read book Lazaretto written by Diane McKinney-Whetstone and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Vibrant. . . . Completely engaging. . . . A unique blend of poetic language and graphic depictions of the injustices suffered by African Americans in the post-Civil War period.”— Booklist (starred review) Diane McKinney-Whetstone's stunning historical novel, Lazaretto, begins in the chaotic back streets of post-Civil War Philadelphia as a young black woman, Meda, gives birth to a child fathered by her wealthy white employer. In a city riven by racial tension, the father’s transgression is unforgivable. He arranges to take the baby, so it falls to Sylvia, the midwife’s teenage apprentice, to tell Meda that her child is dead—a lie that will define the course of both women’s lives. A devastated Meda dedicates herself to working in an orphanage and becomes a surrogate mother to two white boys; while Sylvia, fueled by her guilt, throws herself into her nursing studies and finds a post at the Lazaretto, the country’s first quarantine hospital, situated near the Delaware River, just south of Philadelphia. The Lazaretto is a crucible of life and death; sick passengers and corpses are quarantined here, but this is also the place where immigrants take their first steps toward the American dream. The live-in staff are mostly black Philadelphians, and when two of them arrange to marry, the city’s black community prepares for a party on its grounds. But the celebration is plunged into chaos when gunshots ring out across the river. As Sylvia races to save the victim, the fates of Meda’s beloved orphans also converge on the Lazaretto. Here conflicts escalate, lies collapse, and secrets begin to surface. Like dead men rising, past sins cannot be contained.
Book Synopsis Report by : Louisiana. Board of Health
Download or read book Report written by Louisiana. Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin by : North Carolina. Dept. of Agriculture
Download or read book Bulletin written by North Carolina. Dept. of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112117975711 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture by : North Carolina. Department of Agriculture
Download or read book The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture written by North Carolina. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Until Proven Safe by : Nicola Twilley
Download or read book Until Proven Safe written by Nicola Twilley and published by MCD. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world. Quarantine is our most powerful response to uncertainty: it means waiting to see if something hidden inside us will be revealed. It is also one of our most dangerous, operating through an assumption of guilt. In quarantine, we are considered infectious until proven safe. Until Proven Safe tracks the history and future of quarantine around the globe, chasing the story of emergency isolation through time and space—from the crumbling lazarettos of the Mediterranean, built to contain the Black Death, to an experimental Ebola unit in London, and from the hallways of the CDC to closed-door simulations where pharmaceutical execs and epidemiologists prepare for the outbreak of a novel coronavirus. But the story of quarantine ranges far beyond the history of medical isolation. In Until Proven Safe, the authors tour a nuclear-waste isolation facility beneath the New Mexican desert, see plants stricken with a disease that threatens the world’s wheat supply, and meet NASA’s Planetary Protection Officer, tasked with saving Earth from extraterrestrial infections. They also introduce us to the corporate tech giants hoping to revolutionize quarantine through surveillance and algorithmic prediction. We live in a disorienting historical moment that can feel both unprecedented and inevitable; Until Proven Safe helps us make sense of our new reality through a thrillingly reported, thought-provoking exploration of the meaning of freedom, governance, and mutual responsibility.
Book Synopsis History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by : John Thomas Scharf
Download or read book History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 written by John Thomas Scharf and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers for the Fall of 1899 by : Charles Phillip Close
Download or read book Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers for the Fall of 1899 written by Charles Phillip Close and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers for the Fall of 1899 by : Lucius Lincoln Van Slyke
Download or read book Report of Analyses of Commercial Fertilizers for the Fall of 1899 written by Lucius Lincoln Van Slyke and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lazaretto written by Jennifer Lynn Ombres and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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