Bring Out Your Dead

The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793

J. H. Powell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

334 Seiten

1993
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-1423-9 (ISBN)

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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.

John Harvey Powell (1914-1971) graduated from Swarthmore College and earned his Ph.D. degree in American History at the University of Iowa. Kenneth R. Foster is Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Mary F. Jenkins is a Supervisory Park Ranger and Supervisor of the Dolley Todd Madison House and Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park. Anna Coxe Toogood is Park Historian at Independence National Historical Park.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.1993
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
Einführung	Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, Anna Coxe Toogood
Zusatzinfo	11 illus.
Verlagsort	Pennsylvania
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10	0-8122-1423-4 / 0812214234
ISBN-13	978-0-8122-1423-9 / 9780812214239
Zustand	Neuware