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Volume 348:966-967 March 6, 2003 Number 10
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The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land

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By Conevery Bolton Valencius. 388 pp., illustrated. New York, Basic Books, 2002. $30. ISBN 0-465-08986-0.

The Health of the Country is an illuminating medical perspective on the settlement of the American frontier from the Louisiana Purchase to the start of the Civil War. Through the use of letters, scientific reports, and travel literature, Valencius is able to map what she calls a "geography of health." Settlers and travelers identified land with health or illness and improvement in the land with improvement in individual and national health. Her treatment of human interaction with the environment is not necessarily new; what is novel in her approach is her analysis of the settlers' parallel perceptions of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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