Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease /

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מחבר ראשי: Bollet, Alfred J.
מחבר תאגידי: ebrary, Inc
פורמט: אלקטרוני ספר אלקטרוני
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: New York : Demos, c2004.
מהדורה:2nd ed.
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תוכן הענינים:
  • Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters
  • The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague
  • The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever
  • Syphilis: the great pox
  • The smallpox
  • Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century
  • The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
  • Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult?
  • Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters
  • The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's
  • Scurvy: the purpura nautica
  • Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince
  • Rickets: the English disease
  • Gout: the disease of good living
  • Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism
  • Botulism: from bad food to terrorism
  • The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.