Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (Revised)

Contributor(s): Powell, J H (Author), Foster, Kenneth R (Introduction by), Jenkins, Mary F (Introduction by), Toogood, Anna Coxe (Introduction by)

ISBN: 9780812214239

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Paperback

$40.00

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Pub Date: June 1, 1993

Dewey: 614.54109748

LCCN: 93000873

Lexile Code: 1170

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.70" H x 8.50" L x 5.50" W ( 0.95 lbs) 334 pages

BISAC Categories:

Medical | Epidemiology | History

Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving

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Description: 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.

Review Quotes: "A brilliant case study of the visitation of the scourge in Penn's city."-- "American Historical Review"

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