Water, race, and disease /

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Author / Creator:Troesken, Werner, 1963-
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
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ISBN:0262201488 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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