Disease and Discrimination
Subtitle: Poverty and Pestilence in Colonial Atlantic America
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780813062693
Subjects: Chronic diseases; Poor; Discrimination against people with disabilities; Communicable diseases; Poverty; Public health, united states
Description: Hutchinson explores early colonial settlements and compares those that thrived with those that failed, investigating how disease did or did not affect the Native population nearby. Following the path of infection and disease, Hutchinson demonstrates that as America grew from backwoods to cities, populations in every century were affected in many ways by disease, each one impacting different impoverished classes.