Book ID: CBB000063375

Disease and distinctiveness in the American South (1988)

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Savitt, Todd Lee (Editor)
Young, James Harvey (Editor)


University of Tennessee Press


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: xvii + 211 pp.; illus.; notes; bibl.; index

Description Contents: Breeden, James O.: Disease as a factor in Southern distinctiveness. Duffy, John: The impact of malaria on the South. Carrigan, Jo Ann: Yellow Fever: Scourge of the South. Marcus, Alan I.: The South's native foreigners: Hookworm as a factor in Southern distinctiveness. Etheridge, Elizabeth W.: Pellagra: An unappreciated reminder of Southern distinctiveness. Savitt, Todd L.: Slave health and southern distinctiveness. Young, James Harvey: Patent medicines: An element in Southern distinctiveness?


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Review Howell, J.D. (1991) Review of "Disease and distinctiveness in the American South". Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (pp. 473-75). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Savitt, Todd Lee
Mayo, Dwight Eugene
Young, James Harvey
Verano, John W.
Ubelaker, Douglas H.
Slack, Paul
Journals
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Southern History
Journal of Policy History
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Agricultural History
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Hawai'i Press
University of California Press
University of Alabama Press
Smithsonian Institution Press
Rutgers Univ. Press for the Museum of the City of New York
Concepts
Medicine
Geology
African Americans and science
Psychology
African races
Therapeutics
People
Flexner, Abraham
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
17th century
Places
Latin America
Institutions
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Lincoln University
Sydenham Hospital, Baltimore
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