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Contagion : how commerce has spread disease / Mark Harrison.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Mark, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics.
- Communicable diseases.
- International trade.
- Communicable Diseases--history.
- Disease Transmission, Infectious--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Quarantine--history.
- Yellow Fever--history.
- Plague--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Communicable Diseases--history.
- Disease Transmission, Infectious--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Quarantine--history.
- Yellow Fever--history.
- Plague--history.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 376 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 Merchants of death 1
- 2 War by other means 24
- 3 The evils of quarantine 50
- 4 Quarantine and the empire of free trade 80
- 5 Yellow fever resurgent 107
- 6 A stranglehold on the East 139
- 7 Plague and the global economy 174
- 8 Protection or protectionism? 211
- 9 Disease and globalization 247.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300123579
- 0300123574
- OCLC:
- 785865143
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