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Stalking the Great Killer

Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis

By: Larry C. Floyd,Joseph H. Bates

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Stalking the Great Killer

Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis

By: Larry C. Floyd,Joseph H. Bates

Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas—and across the United States—throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, when the scourge of tuberculosis afflicted populations. Stalking the Great Killer is the gripping story of Arkansas’s struggle to control tuberculosis, and how eventually the state became a model in its effective treatment of the disease. To place the story of tuberculosis in Arkansas in historical perspective, the authors trace the origins of the disease back to the Stone Age. As they explain, it became increasingly lethal in the nineteenth century, particularly in Europe and North America. Among U.S. states, Arkansas suffered some of the worst ravages of the disease, and the authors argue that many of the improvements in the state’s medical infrastructure grew out of the desperate need to control it. In the early twentieth century, Arkansas established a state-owned sanatorium in the northwestern town of Booneville and, thirty years later, the segregated Black sanatorium sanitorium outside Little Rock. These institutions helped slow the “Great Killer” but at a terrible cost: removed from families and communities, patients suffered from the trauma of isolation. Joseph Bates saw this when he personally delivered an uncle to the Booneville sanitorium as a teen in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Bates, now himself a physician, and his physician colleague Paul Reagan overcame a resistant medical-political system to develop a new approach to treating the disease without the necessity of prolonged isolation. This approach, consisting of brief hospitalization followed by outpatient treatment, became the standard of care for the disease. Americans today, having gained control of the disease in the United States, seldom look back. Yet, in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, this compelling history, based on extensive research and eyewitness testimony, offers valuable lessons for the present about community involvement in public health, the potential efficacy of public-private partnerships, and the importance of forward-thinking leadership in the battle to eradicate disease.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806192410

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The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

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The Fungal Kingdom

By: Joseph Heitman,Barbara J. Howlett,Pedro W. Crous,Eva H. Stukenbrock,Timothy Yong James,Neil A. R. Gow

Fungi research and knowledge grew rapidly following recent advances in genetics and genomics. This book synthesizes new knowledge with existing information to stimulate new scientific questions and propel fungal scientists on to the next stages of research. This book is a comprehensive guide on fungi, environmental sensing, genetics, genomics, interactions with microbes, plants, insects, and humans, technological applications, and natural product development.

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1136

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John Wiley & Sons

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1555819583

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9781555819583

Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; Alumni Records from 1842 to 1874

By: Joseph Henry Sawyer

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Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; Alumni Records from 1842 to 1874

By: Joseph Henry Sawyer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385378060

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9783385378063

Annals of the Boston Primary School Committee

By: Joseph M. Wightman

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Annals of the Boston Primary School Committee

By: Joseph M. Wightman

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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3375097824

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Stalking the Great Killer

Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis

By: Larry Floyd

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Stalking the Great Killer

Arkansas's Long War on Tuberculosis

By: Larry Floyd

Imagine a time when a killer disease took lives at a rate rivaling Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021, and continued that grim harvest year after year, decade after decade. Such a nightmare scenario played out in the state of Arkansas—and across the United States—throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, when the scourge of tuberculosis afflicted populations. Stalking the Great Killer is the gripping story of Arkansas’s struggle to control tuberculosis, and how eventually the state became a model in its effective treatment of the disease. To place the story of tuberculosis in Arkansas in historical perspective, the authors trace the origins of the disease back to the Stone Age. As they explain, it became increasingly lethal in the nineteenth century, particularly in Europe and North America. Among U.S. states, Arkansas suffered some of the worst ravages of the disease, and the authors argue that many of the improvements in the state’s medical infrastructure grew out of the desperate need to control it. In the early twentieth century, Arkansas established a state-owned sanitarium in the northwestern town of Booneville and, thirty years later, the segregated Black sanitarium outside Little Rock. These institutions helped slow the “Great Killer” but at a terrible cost: removed from families and communities, patients suffered from the trauma of isolation. Joseph Bates saw this when he personally delivered an uncle to the Booneville sanitarium as a teen in the 1940s. In the 1960s, Bates, now himself a physician, and his physician colleague Paul Reagan overcame a resistant medical-political system to develop a new approach to treating the disease without the necessity of prolonged isolation. This approach, consisting of brief hospitalization followed by outpatient treatment, became the standard of care for the disease. Americans today, having gained control of the disease in the United States, seldom look back. Yet, in the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, this compelling history, based on extensive research and eyewitness testimony, offers valuable lessons for the present about community involvement in public health, the potential efficacy of public-private partnerships, and the importance of forward-thinking leadership in the battle to eradicate disease.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806192402

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Peace and Conflict 2008

By: J. Joseph Hewitt,Jonathan Wilkenfeld,Ted Robert Gurr

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Peace and Conflict 2008

By: J. Joseph Hewitt,Jonathan Wilkenfeld,Ted Robert Gurr

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides key data and documents trends in national and international conflicts ranging from isolated acts of terrorism to internal civil strife to full-fledged interstate war. Peace and Conflict is a large format, full-color reference including numerous graphs, tables, maps, and appendices dedicated to the visual presentation of data. Crisp narratives are highlighted with pull-quote extracts that summarize trends and major findings.

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Routledge

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1000161595

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The Peninsula Campaign 1862

McClellan and Lee Struggle for Richmond

By: Joseph P. Cullen

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The Peninsula Campaign 1862

McClellan and Lee Struggle for Richmond

By: Joseph P. Cullen

Here is the detailed story of The first serious attempt to capture Richmond The struggle that marked the emergence of Robert E. Lee The rise and fall of the North’s great hope, General George B. McClellan In this first book on the subject in 50 years, historian Cullen presents incisive evaluations of the men and movements of the Confederate and Union Armies and disputes the long-held theory that interference form President Lincoln caused McClellan’s failure. Reporting the campaign from both viewpoints, and then judging from the fascinating omniscience of history, he brings fresh research to an old subject that may be new—in this depth—to many. From the first skirmish to the concluding, bloody battle at Malvern Hill, Cullen dissects the strategies of both sides, reports the battles and skirmished, examines the character and abilities of the men who made the decisions in this early campaign that tested two newly formed armies, started Lee on his long war and brought ignominious retirement to McClellan.

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Stackpole Books

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081176690X

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Stalking the Great Killer

Stalking the Great Killer

The Fungal Kingdom

The Fungal Kingdom

Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; Alumni Records from 1842 to 1874

Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Mass.; Alumni Records from 1842 to 1874

Annals of the Boston Primary School Committee

Annals of the Boston Primary School Committee

Stalking the Great Killer

Stalking the Great Killer

Peace and Conflict 2008

Peace and Conflict 2008

The Peninsula Campaign 1862

The Peninsula Campaign 1862

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