Bring out your dead : the great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793

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Bring out your dead : the great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793

by J.H. Powell ; reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood

(Studies in health, illness, and caregiving)

University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Originally published: New York : Arno Press, 1949

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-294) and index

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: pbk ISBN 9780812214239

内容説明

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.

目次

List of Illustrations Introduction to the 1993 Edition Preface to the 1949 Edition Acknowledgments ''A Merry, Sinful Summer'' Infection in Water Street Fever, Domestic and Foreign Prevention, Personal and Civic Crisis Panic "This Excellent Physician" Bush Hill The Committee "Sangrado" The Fugitives Height of the Plague October Frost Afterwards Notes Index
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: cloth ISBN 9780812232103

内容説明

In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your Dead is an absorbing account, form the original sources, of an infamous tragedy that left its mark on all it touched.

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