Plagues in world history / John Aberth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aberth, John, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Exploring world history.

Exploring world history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communicable diseases--History.

Communicable diseases.

Epidemics--History.

Epidemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2016.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. John Aberth considers not only their varied impact but also the many ways in which people have been able to influence diseases simply through their cultural attitudes. Our ability to alter disease, even without modern medical treatments, is even more crucial lesson now that AIDS, swine flu, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, and other seemingly incurable illnesses have raged worldwide. The author's compara

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Plague; Chapter 2: Smallpox; Chapter 3: Tuberculosis; Chapter 4: Cholera; Chapter5: Influenza; Chapter 6: AIDS; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-231) and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-40167-4

979-88-8184-990-0

1-282-92268-8

9786612922688

1-4422-0796-5

OCLC:

694787198