Some Influences of the American Hookworm
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- Wray, Matt. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness .
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| Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward Angel. New York: Scribner, 1929. Hailed by many as the “Great American Novel”, Wolfe’s autobiographical masterpiece is one of the few works of fiction that mentions the flu. His sad and eloquent description of his brother Ben on his deathbed is a scene that was repeated hundreds of thousands of times across America during the 1918 pandemic.
Wray, Matt. Not Quite White: White Trash and the Boundaries of Whiteness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. A fascinating scholarly study of the phenomenon of the white trash stereotype, with extensive material on the role of the hookworm campaign in redefining the southern white working class. Wright, Willard H. “Charles Wardell Stiles: 1867-1941.” The Journal of Parasitology 27, no. 3 (Jun., 1941): pp. 195-201. A more formal biography of Stiles, with good background on his early research on tapeworms. Ziegler, Philip. The Black Death. Stroud, Gloucestershire; Wolfeboro, NH: Sutton, 1991; 1969. A detailed account of the 14th Century pandemic, with an emphasis on England. Well researched and authoritative, but a bit dry. Zinsser, Hans. Rats, Lice and History. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press by Little, Brown, and Company, 1935. The first great study of epidemic and vector-borne diseases, with an emphasis on typhus. Especially good for historical plagues. Directory: ~bfleury -> darwinmed darwinmed -> Although our evolutionary heritage has saddled us with some significant health problems, in the long run it has served us well… darwinmed -> The 1918 Flu 1 – a conspiracy of Silence darwinmed -> Germ Theory darwinmed -> Although our evolutionary heritage has saddled us with some significant health problems, in the long run it has served us well… darwinmed -> In our last lecture, we looked at the ways that trade, travel, technology and agriculture can provide new habitats and new dispersal routes for microbes darwinmed -> The Evolutionary Arms Race Remember the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland? darwinmed -> The 1918 Flu 2 The Philadelphia Story darwinmed -> The 1918 Flu 1 – a conspiracy of Silence darwinmed -> So say the Laws of Manu, an ancient Brahmin text on moral conduct Man is a moral animal… darwinmed -> Pandora's Box Remember the legend of Pandora's Box? Share with your friends:
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