Disease and distinctiveness in the American South
By: edited by Todd L. Savitt and James Harvey Young.
Contributors: Savitt, Todd Lee, 1943-; Young, James Harvey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Diseases -- Southern States -- History.; Public health -- Southern States -- History.; Disease Outbreaks -- history -- United States.; Public Health -- history -- United States.; Southern States -- Civilization.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [194]-196.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Disease as a factor in southern distinctiveness / James O. Breeden; title: The impact of malaria on the South / John Duffy; title: Yellow fever / Jo Ann Carrigan; title: The South's native foreigners / Elizabeth W. Etheridge; title: Slave health and southern distinctiveness / Todd L. Savitt; title: Patent medicines / James Harvey Young.