Search Results - "cholera"

Cholera the biography / by Hamlin, Christopher, 1951-

Subjects: “…Cholera History 19th century.…”
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Cholera symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment /

Subjects: “…Cholera.…”
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Cholera current African perspectives / by Madoroba, E. (Evelyn)

Table of Contents: “…Cholera situation in Africa from 2004 to 2008 -- Horizontal gene transfer and virulence factors of V. cholerae -- Causes and predisposing factors for cholera dynamics -- Laboratory diagnosis of cholera -- Strategies to curb widespread cholera transmission -- Conclusion.…”
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Cholera : a worldwide history / by Kotar, S. L.

Subjects: “…Cholera History.…”
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Stories in the time of cholera racial profiling during a medical nightmare / by Briggs, Charles L., 1953-

Subjects: “…Cholera Venezuela Epidemiology.…”
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Cholera - the unneccessary disease. by TVE International

Subjects: “…Cholera Bangladesh.…”

Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

Table of Contents: “…Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.…”
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Cholera, chloroform, and the science of medicine a life of John Snow /

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Epidemics, empire, and environments : cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 / by Zeheter, Michael

Subjects: “…Cholera India History 19th century.…”
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Public health and politics in the age of reform cholera, the state, and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain / by McLean, David, 1949-

Subjects: “…Cholera Great Britain History 19th century.…”
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Mapping the Victorian social body by Gilbert, Pamela K.

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Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

Table of Contents: “…"Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present /…”
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Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 / by McCrea, Heather L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico -- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns -- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management -- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention -- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever -- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24 -- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico -- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.…”
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Bad medicine doctors doing harm since Hippocrates / by Wootton, David, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Hippocrates and Galen -- Ancient anatomy -- The canon -- The senses -- Vesalius and dissection -- Harvey and vivisection -- The invisible world -- Counting -- Birth of the clinic -- The laboratory -- John Snow and cholera -- Puerperal fever -- Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery -- Alexander Fleming and penicillin -- Doll, Bradford Hill, and lung cancer -- Death deferred.…”
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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 by Ngalamulume, Kalala J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Setting, themes, and conceptual perspectives -- The making of a colonial city -- "The white man's disease": the great yellow fever epidemics, 1867-1900 -- "The black man's disease": cholera and social inequality, 1868-1899 -- A conflict of interests among commerce, competing conceptions of public health, and civil liberties, 1882-1901 -- The scientific missions to Senegal and Brazil and the new paradigm, 1901-1912 -- Plague and violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920 -- Conclusion.…”
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WHO Expert Committee on Biological Standardization fifty-second report.

Table of Contents: “…Group C meningococcal conjugate vaccines. Inactivated oral cholera vaccines. Guidelines on viral inactivation and removal procedures intended to assure the viral safety of human blood plasma products. …”
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Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease / by Bollet, Alfred J.

Table of Contents: “…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…”
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Healthcare without borders : understanding Cuban medical internationalism / by Kirk, John M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: setting the scene -- Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army" -- Elam, a school for all nations -- Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right -- Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions -- Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade -- South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses -- The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on -- Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera -- Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific -- The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated -- Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida -- Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.…”
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Epidemics and the Health of African Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Contending with epidemics and health systems in Africa. Cholera in Africa in the 21st century : questions of justice and human rights / Sunanda Ray, Farai D. …”
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