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Cholera : the biography / Christopher Hamlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamlin, Christopher, 1951- author.
- Series:
- Biographies of disease (Oxford, England)
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Biographies of disease
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cholera--History--19th century.
- Cholera.
- Cholera--History--20th century.
- Cholera--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cholera--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cholera is a dangerous and frightening disease that can kill within hours. Chris Hamlin not only tells how the bacterial cause of cholera was discovered, but describes the experience of different countries, some of which continue to struggle with the disease today.
- Contents:
- Cholera : the very idea
- Cholera finds itself
- Citizen cholera
- Cholera confuses
- Cholera goes into analysis, and dies
- Cholera's last laugh.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04523-2
- 1-282-38318-3
- 9786612383182
- 0-19-157170-9
- OCLC:
- 505429924
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