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The Cause And Prevention Of Yellow Fever At New Orleans And Other Cities In America
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Book Synopsis The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and Other Cities in America by : New Orleans (La.). Sanitary Commission
Download or read book The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and Other Cities in America written by New Orleans (La.). Sanitary Commission and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans by : Urmi Engineer Willoughby
Download or read book Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans written by Urmi Engineer Willoughby and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the innovative perspective of environment and culture, Urmi Engineer Willoughby examines yellow fever in New Orleans from 1796 to 1905. Linking local epidemics to the city’s place in the Atlantic world, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans analyzes how incidences of and responses to the disease grew out of an environment shaped by sugar production, slavery, and urban development. Willoughby argues that transnational processes—including patterns of migration, industrialization, and imperialism—contributed to ecological changes that enabled yellow fever–carrying Aedes aëgypti mosquitoes to thrive and transmit the disease in New Orleans, challenging presumptions that yellow fever was primarily transported to the Americas on slave ships. She then traces the origin and spread of medical and popular beliefs about yellow fever immunity, from the early nineteenth-century contention that natives of New Orleans were protected, to the gradual emphasis on race as a determinant of immunity, reflecting social tensions over the abolition of slavery around the world. As the nineteenth century unfolded, ideas of biological differences between the races calcified, even as public health infrastructure expanded, and race continued to play a central role in the diagnosis and prevention of the disease. State and federal governments began to create boards and organizations responsible for preventing new outbreaks and providing care during epidemics, though medical authorities ignored evidence of black victims of yellow fever. Willoughby argues that American imperialist ambitions also contributed to yellow fever eradication and the growth of the field of tropical medicine: U.S. commercial interests in the tropical zones that grew crops like sugar cane, bananas, and coffee engendered cooperation between medical professionals and American military forces in Latin America, which in turn enabled public health campaigns to research and eliminate yellow fever in New Orleans. A signal contribution to the field of disease ecology, Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans delineates events that shaped the Crescent City’s epidemiological history, shedding light on the spread and eradication of yellow fever in the Atlantic World.
Book Synopsis Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army by : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Epidemic Pestilences by : Edward Bascome
Download or read book A History of Epidemic Pestilences written by Edward Bascome and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Epidemics and Pandemics [2 volumes] by : Joseph P. Byrne
Download or read book Epidemics and Pandemics [2 volumes] written by Joseph P. Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces. This book examines these connections, exploring key topics in the study of disease outbreaks and delving deep into specific historical and contemporary examples. From the Black Death that ravaged Europe in the 14th century to the influenza pandemic following World War I and the novel strain of coronavirus that made "social distancing" the new normal, wide-scale disease outbreaks have played an important role throughout human history. In addition to the toll they take on human lives, epidemics have spurred medical innovations, toppled governments, crippled economies, and led to cultural revolutions. Epidemics and Pandemics: From Ancient Plagues to Modern-Day Threats provides readers with a holistic view of the terrifying—and fascinating—topic of epidemics and pandemics. In Volume 1, readers will discover what an epidemic is, how it emerges and spreads, what diseases are most likely to become epidemics, and how disease outbreaks are tracked, prevented, and combatted. They will learn about the impacts of such modern factors as global air travel and antibiotic resistance, as well as the roles played by public health agencies and the media. Volume 2 offers detailed case studies that explore the course and lasting significance of individual epidemics and pandemics throughout history.
Book Synopsis Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History by : Ballard C. Campbell
Download or read book Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History written by Ballard C. Campbell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks.
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Book Synopsis Epidemics and Pandemics by : Jo N. Hays
Download or read book Epidemics and Pandemics written by Jo N. Hays and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing current and historical issues, this volume of essays covers the most significant worldwide epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS. Great pandemics have resulted in significant death tolls and major social disruption. Other "virgin soil" epidemics have struck down large percentages of populations that had no previous contact with newly introduced microbes. Written by a specialist in the history of science and medicine, the essays in this volume discuss pandemics and epidemics affecting Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, covering diseases in ancient times to the present. Each entry combines biological and social information to form a picture of the significance of epidemics that have shaped world history. The essays cover the areas of major pandemics, virgin soil epidemics, disruptive shocks, and epidemics of symbolic interest. Included are facts about what an epidemic was, where and when it occurred, how contemporaries reacted, and the unresolved historical issues remaining. This fascinating material is written at a level suitable for scholars and the general public.
Book Synopsis Draining New Orleans by : Richard Campanella
Download or read book Draining New Orleans written by Richard Campanella and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Draining New Orleans, the first full-length book devoted to “the world’s toughest drainage problem,” renowned geographer Richard Campanella recounts the epic challenges and ingenious efforts to dewater the Crescent City. With forays into geography, public health, engineering, architecture, politics, sociology, race relations, and disaster response, he chronicles the herculean attempts to “reclaim” the city’s swamps and marshes and install subsurface drainage for massive urban expansion. The study begins with a vivid description of a festive event on Mardi Gras weekend 1915, which attracted an entourage of elite New Orleanians to the edge of Bayou Barataria to witness the christening of giant water pumps. President Woodrow Wilson, connected via phoneline from the White House, planned to activate the station with the push of a button, effectively draining the West Bank of New Orleans. What transpired in the years and decades that followed can only be understood by examining the large swath of history dating back two centuries earlier—to the geological formation and indigenous occupation of this delta—and extending through the colonial, antebellum, postbellum, and Progressive eras to modern times. The consequences of dewatering New Orleans proved both triumphant and tragic. The city’s engineering prowess transformed it into a world leader in drainage technology, yet the municipality also fell victim to its own success. Rather than a story about mud and machinery, this is a history of people, power, and the making of place. Campanella emphasizes the role of determined and sometimes unsavory individuals who spearheaded projects to separate water from dirt, creating lucrative opportunities in the process not only for the community but also for themselves.
Book Synopsis The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints by :
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Book Synopsis Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South by : John H. Ellis
Download or read book Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South written by John H. Ellis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 response to it are for the first time fully examined by John Ellis in this new book. At the national level, southern congressional leaders fought to establish a strong federal health agency, but they were defeated by the young American Public Health Association, which defended states' rights. Local responses and results were mixed. In New Orleans, business and professional men, reacting to the denunciation of the city as the nation's pesthole, organized in 1879 to improve drainage, garbage disposal, and water supplies through voluntary subscription. Their achievements were of necessity modest. In Memphis—the city hardest hit by the epidemic—a new municipal government in 1879 helped form the first regional health organization and during the 1880s led the nation in sanitary improvements. In Atlanta, though it largely escaped the epidemic, the Constitution and some citizens called for health reform. Ironically their voices were drowned out by ritual invocation of local health mythology and by unabashed exploitation of the stigma of pestilence attached to New Orleans and Memphis. By 1890 Atlanta rivaled Charleston and Richmond for primacy in black mortality rates. That the public health movement met with only limited success Ellis attributes to the prevailing atmosphere of opportunistic greed, overwhelming debt, economic instability, and inordinate political corruption. But the effort to combat a terrifying disease not fully understood did eventually produce changes and the vastly improved health systems of today.
Book Synopsis Medical and Surgical Memoirs by : Joseph Jones
Download or read book Medical and Surgical Memoirs written by Joseph Jones and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection by : Edward G. Miner Library
Download or read book An Annotated Catalog of the Miner Yellow Fever Collection written by Edward G. Miner Library and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the International Medical Congress by : International Medical Congress, ltd
Download or read book Transactions of the International Medical Congress written by International Medical Congress, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the International medical congress. Ninth session by : John Brown Hamilton
Download or read book Transactions of the International medical congress. Ninth session written by John Brown Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Commercial and Financial Chronicle by :
Download or read book Commercial and Financial Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the American Medical Association by :
Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: