Racial differences in disease susceptibilities: Intestinal worm infections in the early twentieth-century American South

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 461-482

  Coelho, Philip R P ^a   McGuire, Robert A ^b  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

1920s; American South; Differential disease susceptibilities; Disease susceptibilities; Ethnicity; Hookworm; Intestinal worms; Parasitic diseases; Race; Racial differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845229306     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkl047     Document Type: Article

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