Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780547746241 (0547746245)
Publish date: September 10th 2013
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
Cuba, 1900. This is a MG-level book that explores the discovery of how yellow fever is spread - basically one of those "breaking the codes" that led to numerous public health campaigns and led to more discoveries about yellow fever in the 20th century. Major Leonard Wood of the US Army spearheaded a...
Juvenile non-fiction account of the American doctors who were attempting to discover how yellow fever is spread. I found it informative, but wished that Jurmain had taken a harder look at the issues of imperialism & race which I felt lurking just behind the story.
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