Slavery, disease, and suffering in the southern Lowcountry / Peter McCandless.
- McCandless, Peter, 1946-
- Date:
- 2011
- Books
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Description
"In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. This book argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided, and denied the virulent disease environment; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South, and the United States"--Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Physical description
xxi, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Contents
Pt. 1. Talk about suffering -- Rhetoric and reality -- From paradise to hospital -- "A scene of diseases" -- Wooden horse -- Revolutionary fever -- Stranger's disease -- "A merciful provision of the creator" -- pt. 2. Combating pestilence -- "I wish that I had studied physick" -- "I know nothing of this disease" -- Providence, prudence, and patience -- Buying the smallpox -- Commerce, contagion, and cleanliness -- A migratory species -- Melancholy.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJQC.657.AA6-8Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9781107004153
- 1107004152