Publication Date
5-1-2000
Degree Program
Department of Geography and Geology
Degree Type
Master of Science
Abstract
This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general population was given a closer evaluation. Very young, females and the slave/Black communities were investigated individually. The overall site and situation of all aspects of Trimble County, Kentucky were viewed in an effort to support the notion that it is the manner in which man interacts with this environment that causes disease and death and that is not the environment itself that destroys human life.
Disciplines
Geography | History | Race and Ethnicity | United States History
Recommended Citation
Demaree, Nancy, "Place, Disease and Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894" (2000). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 716.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/716