S. L. Kotar, J. E. Gessler

Yellow Fever

A Worldwide History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers on the Panama Canal. Medical science has never found a cure and the disease continues to present a threat to the modern world, both as a mosquito-borne epidemic and as a potential biological weapon. Drawing on firsthand accounts and contemporary sources, this book traces the history of the viral infection that has claimed countless victims across the United States, Central America and Africa, and of the global effort to combat this challenging and deadly disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 851g
• ISBN-13: 9780786479191
• ISBN-10: 0786479191
• Artikelnr.: 44944648

Autorenporträt

S.L. Kotar of St. Louis has been writing (together with J.E. Gessler) for more than four decades, beginning with scripts for television's Gunsmoke.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgment Preface
1.
Yellow Fever: A Perspective
2.
The Early Colonial Period
3.
A Question of Quarantine
4.
The American Plague
5.
"Particulars of the Plague in Philadelphia"
6.
Most Unhappy Consequences
7.
The Controversies of Yellow Fever Continue to Rage
8.
The "Great Epidemic" of 1798
9.
Is Yellow Fever More Deadly Than the Plague? 10.
The Repository of Knowledge 11.
Daily Mortality Is Now More Considerable 12.
The Baneful Effects of Yellow Fever 13.
Corpses Still Animated: Yellow Fever, 1820-1829 14.
"All the evils which hell may contain" 15.
The "Dead Book" 16.
New Orleans: A City of Desolation 17.
"To the manor born" 18.
The "Quarantine War" and the "Quarantine Armada" 19.
Deluge of Yellow Fever in the South and Worldwide Epidemics 20.
The American Un-Civil War Period, 1860-1866 21.
Holding On Until the Other Jack (Frost) Says "Enough!" 22.
I Am "writing from the city of the dead" 23.
Quarantine and Avarice, 1870-1873 24.
"Falling Like Leaves" 25.
"The grim monster still on his pathway": The Outbreaks of 1878 26.
"We are almost entirely ignorant" 27.
Mosquitoes and Germ Theories 28.
Panama and Nicaragua: Two Canals, Two Views 29.
Cuba and the "Patriotic Disease" 30.
After War: Science and Sanitation 31.
Into the 20th Century 32.
Panama! 33.
"America to Slay the World's Disease Germs" 34.
Taking Steps Against a Deadly Enemy Glossary Chapter Notes Bibliography Index