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Title:

A melancholy scene of devastation : the public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic / edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.

Publisher:

Published for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Library Company of Philadelphia by Science History Publications/USA,

Copyright Date:

1997

Description:

xii, 211 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Yellow fever--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
Afro-Americans--History--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--18th century.
Yellow Fever--history--Philadelphia.
Disease Outbreaks--history--Philadelphia.
Blacks--history--Philadelphia.

Other Authors:

Estes, J. Worth, 1934-
Smith, Billy G.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appendix II: yellow fever since 1793 : history and historiography / Margaret Humphreys. Readership as citizenship in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia / David Paul Nord -- "Total dissolution of the bonds of society" : community death and regeneration in Mathew Carey's Short account of the malignant fever / Sally F. Griffith -- "Abigail, a Negress" : the role and the legacy of African Americans in the yellow fever epidemic / Philip Lapsansky -- Passions and politics : the multiple meanings of Benjamin Rush's treatment for yellow fever / Jacquelyn C. Miller -- Beyond therapeutics : technology and the question of public health in late-eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Michal McMahon -- Politics, parties, and pestilence : epidemic yellow fever in Philadelphia and the rise of the first party system / Martin S. Pernick -- Comment : disease and community / Billy G. Smith -- Appendix I: "how many precious souls are fled?" : the magnitude of the 1793 yellow fever epidemic / Susan E. Klepp -- Appendix II: yellow fever since 1793 : history and historiography / Margaret Humphreys.

ISBN:

9780881351927 (alk. paper)
088135192X (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36170565

LCCN:

96054741

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)