Water, race, and disease / Werner Troesken.

Show other versions (1)

"Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and sewer service for African Americans improve and...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Troesken, Werner, 1963-
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004], ©2004.
Cambridge, Mass. : [2004]
Series:NBER series on long-term factors in economic development.
Subjects:
African Americans > Health and hygiene > History.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Waterborne infection > Prevention > United States > History.
Health and race > United States > History.
Sanitary Engineering > history.
Black or African American.
Communicable Diseases > ethnology.
Water Pollution > adverse effects.
United States.
History.
Genre:
History.
Online Access:
Connect to: View table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xvii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Waterborne Diseases
  • Sewers: When, Where, and to What Effect?
  • Typhoid Mary Meets Jim Crow: Stories from Memphis, Savannah, and Jacksonville
  • The Exception That Proves the Rule: Shaw, Mississippi
  • Water Filtration: Who Benefitted and Why
  • Verification
  • Further Tests
  • The Negro Mortality Project.