The American plague the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history / Molly Caldwell Crosby.

Author/creator Crosby, Molly Caldwell
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Berkley Books, 2006.
Descriptionviii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Yellow fever--History.
Yellow fever--Tennessee. --Memphis. --History.
Yellow fever--History. --Cuba.
Yellow fever--History. --Tennessee.
Yellow fever--History. --United States.
Communicable Disease Control--History. --Cuba.
Communicable Disease Control--History. --Tennessee.
Communicable Disease Control--History. --United States.
History, 19th Century--Cuba.
History, 19th Century--Tennessee.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--Cuba.
History, 20th Century--Tennessee.
History, 20th Century--United States.
Yellow Fever--history. --Cuba.
Yellow Fever--history. --Tennessee.
Yellow Fever--history. --United States.
Communicable Disease Control--history. --Cuba.
Communicable Disease Control--history. --Tennessee.
Communicable Disease Control--history. --United States.
History, 19th Century--Cuba.
History, 19th Century--Tennessee.
History, 19th Century--United States.
History, 20th Century--Cuba.
History, 20th Century--Tennessee.
History, 20th Century--United States.
History of Medicine.

Contents I: The American plague -- II: Memphis, 1878 -- Carnival -- Bright canary yellow -- The doctors -- A city of corpses -- The destroying angel -- Greatly exaggerated -- The Havana commission -- Reparations -- III: Cuba, 1900 -- A splendid little war -- Siboney -- An unlikely hero -- A meeting of minds -- The yellow fever commission -- Insects -- Vivisection -- Did the mosquito do it? -- Guinea pig no. 1 -- Camp Lazear -- A new century -- Blood -- The etiology of yellow fever -- Retribution -- The mosquito -- IV: United States, present day -- Epidemic -- A return to Africa -- The vaccine -- History repeats itself -- Elmwood.
General noteMap on lining papers.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN 2006050497
ISBN0425212025 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780425212028 (alk. paper)