Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South

Disease and Distinctiveness in the American South
ISBN-10
0870496859
ISBN-13
9780870496851
Category
Diseases
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
1991
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Authors
James Harvey Young, Todd L. Savitt

Description

This book looks at disease entities (yellow fever, hookworm, pellagra) especially associated with the American South and wrestles with the relation of diseases to an issue of perennial concern to southern historians, that of southern distinctiveness.

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