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American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gehlbach, Stephen H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--United States--History.
- Epidemics.
- Communicable diseases--United States--History.
- Communicable diseases.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Epidemiology--history.
- History.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Epidemiology--history.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 301 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016]
- Contents:
- Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever
- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721
- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination
- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake
- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report
- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau
- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis
- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette
- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study
- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS
- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections
- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442256507
- 1442256508
- OCLC:
- 934020010
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