Water, race, and disease /
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Author / Creator: | Troesken, Werner, 1963- |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004. |
Description: | xvii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | NBER series on long-term factors in economic development |
Subject: | African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History. African Americans -- Social conditions -- History. Waterborne infection -- Prevention -- United States -- History. Health and race -- United States -- History. Sanitary Engineering -- history -- United States. African Americans. Communicable Diseases -- ethnology -- United States. Water Pollution -- adverse effects -- United States. African Americans -- Health and hygiene. African Americans -- Social conditions. Health and race. Waterborne infection -- Prevention. United States. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5276392 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Waterborne Diseases
- 3. Sewers: When, Where, and to What Effect?
- 4. Typhoid Mary Meets Jim Crow: Stories from Memphis, Savannah, and Jacksonville
- 5. The Exception That Proves the Rule: Shaw, Mississippi
- 6. Water Filtration: Who Benefitted and Why
- 7. Verification
- 8. Further Tests
- 9. Conclusions
- Appendix. The Negro Mortality Project
- Notes
- References
- Index