Yellow Fever Black Goddess

Author : Christopher Wills
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780201328189
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Fever, Black Goddess written by Christopher Wills and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 1997-08-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of taming them. By putting these organisms—from bubonic plague to Ebola—at center-stage, Wills shows how we will eventually master them.

Author : Urmi Engineer Willoughby
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807167754
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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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 265 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.

Author : W.L. Coleman
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5879063321
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A history of yellow fever written by W.L. Coleman and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1898 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James L. Dickerson
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615924590
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Fever written by James L. Dickerson and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using personal tales, diary extracts and anecdotes, [Dickerson] paints a vivid picture of the full horrors of a disease that struck indiscriminately....he has written personal accounts of the great US epidemics and humanity's fight to overcome the virus....this slender volume makes pleasant reading. -Times Literary Supplement[A] well-written history of the yellow fever epidemics that ravaged Philadelphia, New Orleans and other locales from the late 1700s through the 19th century....As interesting as the medical tale are the social aspects, such as the role of the city's blacks, who believed they were immune to yellow fever, in treating its victims....Dickerson suggests that yellow fever is a prime candidate for use as a biological weapon, and he considers disturbing evidence that global warming could bring a resurgence of the virus in North America. -Publishers WeeklyYellow fever is unlikely to be found on a list of potential health threats facing Americans today. Most people, if they have heard of the disease at all, would consider it a historical curiosity from a bygone era. In this fascinating study of a once-terrifying pandemic, author James L. Dickerson makes it clear that the disease could reemerge with deadly virulence.In a vividly told narrative, filled with poignant and graphic scenes culled from historical archives, Dickerson recounts the history of one of the most feared diseases in the United States. From the late 18th to the early 20th century, yellow fever killed Americans by the tens of thousands in the Northeast and throughout the South. In Memphis alone, five thousand people died in 1878.Dickerson describes how public health officials gradually eliminated the disease from this country, so that by the mid 1950s it had ceased to be of much concern to the public at large. However, to this day no cure has been found. As a mosquito-borne viral infection, yellow fever is impervious to antibiotics, and it continues to wreak havoc in parts of South America and Africa.Focusing on the present, Dickerson discusses the potential threat of yellow fever as a biological warfare agent in the hands of terrorists. Also of concern to public health researchers is the effect of global warming on mosquito populations. Even a one-to-two degree warming enables disease-bearing mosquitoes to move into areas once protected by colder weather. He concludes with a discussion of current precautionary efforts based on interviews with experts and analysis of available studies.Both absorbing history and a timely wake-up call for the present, Yellow Fever is fascinating and important reading.FURTHER PRAISE FOR YELLOW FEVER:Beginning with a smoothly written history of yellow fever in the United States followed by the eventual discovery of its cause, Dickerson then lays out the sobering scenario for its reemergence both naturally and as a weapon.... It is sobering to realize there still is no cure for this ancient scourge and vaccinations are not fool proof or without risk. This is a serious wake-up call that needs to be read by anyone with an interest in public safety. -Monsters and Critics.com[Dickerson's skills as a journalist make this book a good read for a nonscientific audience....still, there are a number of sections that will be of interest to physicians and scientists. -Journal of Clinical InvestigationJames L. Dickerson, an award-winning journalist and a former social worker, has published twenty nonfiction books and numerous health-related articles for magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Omni. His books include Dixie's Dirty Secret, an investigative account of civil rights abuses in the 1950s and 1960s.

Author : Christopher Wills
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Fever, Black Goddess written by Christopher Wills and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996-08-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Yellow Fever, Black Goddess turns the tables on past accounts, focusing not on the microbe hunters but on the microbes themselves, putting these exotic life-forms at center stage, telling their story as they fight to live at the very edge of the possible. Humans acknowledge the existence of our planet's primitive coinhabitants only when they do their worst - emerging to strike down whole populations through rampaging epidemics. But in fact, the protozoa, bacteria, and viruses that cause such diseases as yellow fever and cholera - which is symbolized by the black goddess - lead complex lives in their own right, struggling ever further out on their evolutionary limbs." "In order to deal with these microbes we must understand the entire evolutionary environment in which they function - from tropical breeding grounds to the resistant temperate zones, from insect viruses to human plagues - and through this alone can we hope to control them. By giving these organisms their due in this remarkable account, Christopher Wills points the way toward gaining that mastery."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Erasmus Darwin Fenner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Epidemic Yellow Fever, at New Orleans, La., in 1853 written by Erasmus Darwin Fenner and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McLead Keating
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Yellow Fever written by John McLead Keating and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Babb
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781096831266
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices of the Dead written by John Babb and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big, sprawling novel for fans of James Michener...During four terror-filled months in 1878, a yellow fever epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley struck 154 towns and cities, killed over 20,000 people, and wiped entire families and businesses from the face of the earth. A determined band of volunteer heroes and heroines fought the virus despite their limited medical knowledge.A Creole nurse from New Orleans travels north to help, bringing with her a very special locket she inherited from her Haitian grandmother. An Irish chambermaid learns nursing and puts her life at risk trying to bring down her patients' fevers. A Jewish physician volunteers despite lacking immunity to the virus. A fisherman becomes one of the first black policemen in the South when the white force is decimated by the disease.Priests, sisters, reverends, rabbis, physicians, nurses, hearse drivers, gravediggers, retired military, an unashamed madam, a gambler...Some survived. Others paid the ultimate price. And only one person can hear the voices of the dead.

Author : Peter Murtough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Condensed History of the Great Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 written by Peter Murtough and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Augustus Shubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yellow Fever; Its Origin, Improper Treatment, Prevention and Cure written by William Augustus Shubert and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: