Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Demos,
[2004]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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.
- 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.