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By Margaret Humphreys. 226 pp. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1992. $45. ISBN 0-8135-1820-2.

This portable, readable, and scholarly book gives evidence of impressive analytic erudition on the part of the author. Her general theme is the multiple factors, attitudes, and reactions that shape society's behavior when epidemics arrive; her particular focus is the U.S. South at the time of the yellow fever epidemics of the second half of the 19th century.

In this book we learn of absurd and protracted conflicts among vested interests and about stubborn ideologies, stupid prejudices, and misguided decisions during the struggle to prevent and eradicate a terrifying disease. Ignorance, greed, and panic formed a destructive mixture. The saga . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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