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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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Cholera a paradigm for understanding emergence, virulence and temporal patterns of disease /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Vibrio cholerae epidemiology and classification -- Vibrio cholerae and cholera -- Cholera mortality -- The history of V. cholerae research -- Cholera toxin and pathogenesis -- Comparative genomics -- The TCP Island of Vibrio cholerae -- Structure of the CTX prophage -- Vibrio cholerae microarray -- Clinical sample analysis -- Virstatin -- What influences the seasonality and epidemiology of cholera? …”
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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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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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Chemical Ecology : The Ecological Impacts of Marine Natural Products /

Table of Contents: “…New Insights into the Chemical Ecology of Vibrio cholerae --…”
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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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Galdos and medicine / by Stannard, Michael W., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Doctors and medicine in Galdos's madrid -- Epidemics: cholera, influenza and smallpox -- Endemic diseases: tuberculosis, syphilis, angina -- Alcoholism -- Madness -- Eye disease and blindness -- Childhood diseases -- Conclusions.…”
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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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Nationalizing the body the medical market, print and daktari medicine / by Mukharji, Projit Bihari

Table of Contents: “…Healers in context: forgotten pioneers -- Daktari prints: the world of bengali printing and the multiple inscriptions of daktari medicine -- Contagious nationalism: contagion and the actualization of the nation -- Political plague: diagnosing a neo-Hindu modernity -- Endemic commerce: cholera and the medical market -- Dhatu dourbalya: the rhizoid pathologies of weakness -- Conclusion.…”
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Russian colonial society in Tashkent 1865-1923 / by Sahadeo, Jeff, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Prologue: Tashkent before the Russians and the dynamics of conquest -- Ceremonies, construction, and commemoration -- Educated society, identity, and nationality -- Unstable boundaries: the colonial relationship and the 1892 "Cholera riot" -- Migration, class, and colonialism -- The predicaments of "progress," 1905-1914 -- War, empire, and society, 1914-1916 -- Exploiters or exploited? …”
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Viral fitness the next SARS and West Nile in the making / by Goudsmit, Jaap, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…As natural as breathing: the flu virus -- Farming and feeding the hungry: plant viruses and human enteroviruses -- Raising cattle and eating meat: rinderpest, measles and mad cow virus -- Slaking our thirst: the cholera bacteria and its toxic viruses -- Weathering storms and droughts: West Nile virus and others alike -- Getting lucky with a faulty gene: escape from simple retroviruses -- Taking chances with sex: the herpes and papova viruses -- Risking death with sex: the AIDS virus -- Warring against humans and other animals: smallpox, monkeypox and alike -- Raiding the wild for delicacies: the sars virus.…”
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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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