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Title: Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (Studies in Health Illness and Caregiving) by J. H. Powell, A. Coxie Toogood, Kenneth R. Foster ISBN: 0-8122-1423-4 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: July, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Irrational behavior in the age of enlightenment
Comment: This is a great story, full of familiar people (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson), life and death situations, bravery, cowardice, avarice, public hysteria, and stupidity. The author chose to focus on the drama of the event and the clash of medical authorities. But it seems to me that an even greater story lies in the mystery of why no serious effort was made to solve the mystery. That is, given that no one knew what caused the sudden and inexplicable death of thousands of America's finest citizen's, why was the scientific method not applied? Instead, the medical profession selected a host of mostly disastrous therapies, mainly lethal doses of mercury and bloodletting. Possibly as many people died from the "cures" as from the disease. What does this event tell us about our society's willingness to accept authority and mysticism, when a small dose of knowledge would go a whole lot further? This is a fascinating if horrifying portrait of our culture, as well as a great read.
Rating: 3
Summary: GOOD HISTORY
Comment: I ENJOYED READING THE BOOK, AND RECCCOMEND IT TO ANYONE WHO ENJOYS READING REAL HISTORY. PROVIDES A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE/ACCOUNT OF PHILADELPHIA, AND THE REACTION TO A PROBLEM THAT REACHES INTO EVERY CORNER OF THE CULTURE.
MANY GREAT PEOPLE STRUGGLED TO GET PHILADELPHIA THROUGH THESE DAYS!
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Title: Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (History of Crime and Criminal Justice Series) by Roger Lane, David Johnson ISBN: 0814250211 Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 by Charles E. Rosenberg ISBN: 0226726770 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: September, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth by Sam Bass, Jr. Warner ISBN: 0812212436 Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corporation Pub. Date: July, 1987 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Yellow Fever, Black Goddess: The Coevolution of People and Plagues by Christopher Wills ISBN: 0201328186 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger ISBN: 0679744940 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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