The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history

• Tác giả: Molly Caldwell Crosby
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0425217752
• ISBN-13: 978-0425217757
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 614.5 Incidence of and public measures to prevent specific diseases and kinds of diseases
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books, 2007.
• Mô tả vật lý: viii, 368 p., [16] p. of plates : , ill., map, ports. ; , 21 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học ứng dụng
• ID: 94840
• Chủ đề: 1. Yellow fever--History; 2. Yellow fever--History--Tennessee

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-354) and index.

Tóm tắt

Traces the impact on American history of yellow fever from the mid-seventeenth century onward, examining in particular the near-destruction of Memphis from the disease and the efforts of four men to combat the deadly scourge.