Bibliography for Yellow Fever and the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission

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  • Bowen, Thomas E. “William Crawford Gorgas, Physician to the World,” Military Medicine 148 (December 1983): 917-20.
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  • Coleman, William. Yellow Fever in the North: The Methods of Early Epidemiology. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
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  • Hofstadter, Richard. “Manifest Destiny and the Philippines,” In American Imperialism in 1898, ed. Theodore P. Greene, 54-70. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1955.
  • Humphreys, Margaret. Yellow Fever and the South. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
  • Kelly, Howard A. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906.
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  • Leonard, Jonathan. “Carlos Finlay’s Life and the Death of Yellow Jack,” Bulletin of PAHO 23.4 (1989): 438-52.
  • Lodge, Henry Cabot. “The Philippine Islands: A Speech Before the United States Senate, March 7, 1900,” In American Imperialism in 1898, ed. Theodore P. Greene, 70-77. Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1955.
  • Lynk, Miles V. The Black Troopers, or the Daring Heroism of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War. New York: AMS Press, 1971; originally published 1899.
  • Malkin, Harold M. “The Trials and Tribulations of George Miller Sternberg (1838- 1915)—America’s First Bacteriologist,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36.4 (Summer 1993): 666-78.
  • Monath, Thomas P. “Yellow Fever: Victor, Victoria? Conquerer, Conquest? Epidemics and Research in the Last Forty Years and Prospects for the Future,” American Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 45.1 (1991): 1-43.
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  • Patterson, Robert. “Dr. William Gorgas and his war with the mosquito,” CMAJ 141 (15 September 1989): 596-99.
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  • _______, James Carroll, and Aristides Agramonte. “The Etiology of Yellow Fever: An Additional Note,” Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Pan-Am. Medical Congress in Havana, February 4-7, 1901.
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  • Samson, Julie. “Clara Maass: A Nurse Who Gave Her Life So That Others Could Live,” Imprint (April-May 1990): 81-89.
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  • _______. “Epidemiologic Classics of Carter, Maxcy, Trudeau, and Smith,” Journal of Infectious Diseases 165 (1992): 235-44.
  • Ziperman, H. Haskell. “A Medical History of the Panama Canal,” Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics 137 (July 1973): 104-14.