Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / Alfred Jay Bollet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bollet, Alfred J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epidemiology--History.

Epidemiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Other Title:

Plagues and poxes

Place of Publication:

New York : Demos, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since publication of the initial version of Plagues & Poxes in 1987, which had the optimistic subtitle ''The Rise and Fall of Epidemic Disease,'' the rise of new diseases such as AIDS and the deliberate modification and weaponization of diseases such as anthrax have changed the way we perceive infectious disease. With major modifications to deal with this new reality, the acclaimed author of Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs has updated and revised this series of essays about changing disease patterns in history and some of the key events and people involved in them. It deals with th

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-97468-4

9786611974688

1-934559-38-5

OCLC:

808609995