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The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History 

byMolly Caldwell Crosby

During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined. Using scientific research, fieldwork, and carefully chosen case studies, The American Plague moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing The American Plague within health & fitness and history, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. The American Plague emphasizes the specific circumstances that made this story possible and the consequences that followed.

Publisher

Berkley Trade

Publication date

September 4, 2007

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780425217757