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Yellow Fever and the South
Humphreys Margaret
edizioni Johns Hopkins Univ Pr collana Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (Paperback) , 1999
In the last half of the nineteenth century, yellow fever plagued the American South. It stalked the region's steaming cities, killing its victims with overwhelming hepatitis and hemorrhage. Margaret Humphreys explores the ways in which this tropical disease hampered commerce, frustrated the scientific community, and...
Oranges & Sunshine
Humphreys Margaret
edizioni Transworld Pub , 2011
Now a major film, the book that exposed the incredible scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a British social worker, investigated a woman's claim that at the age of four she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first thinking it incredulous,...
Malaria
Humphreys Margaret
edizioni Johns Hopkins Univ Pr , 2001
In Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States, Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic development, and the quality of life at every level of American society, especially...