Yellow Fever & Public Health by Ellis, John H.

Yellow Fever & Public Health (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813117812)

Vendor: John H. Ellis
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Format: Hardcover
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Yellow Fever & Public Health by Ellis, John H.

Yellow Fever & Public Health

$35.00
Yellow Fever & Public Health by Ellis, John H.

Yellow Fever & Public Health

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 defeat

Author: John H. Ellis
ISBN-10: 081311781X
ISBN-13: 9780813117812
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/18/1992
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.35h x 6.28w x 0.87d
By John H. Ellis
By John H. Ellis
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John H. Ellis (1932-2008), professor emeritus of history at Lehigh University, wrote widely on medicine in the South.

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