The American plague : the untold story of yellow fever, the epidemic that shaped our history

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 and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York : Berkley Books, 2006.
Description	viii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Subject(s)	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 note	Map on lining papers.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index.
Acquisitions source	Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN	2006050497
ISBN	0425212025 (alk. paper)
ISBN	9780425212028 (alk. paper)