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Cholera : the biography / Christopher Hamlin.

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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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