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Diseases & epidemics / by Micah L. Issitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Issitt, Micah L., author.
- Series:
- Opinions throughout history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--United States--History--Sources.
- Epidemics.
- COVID-19 (Disease).
- History.
- Communicable diseases.
- United States--History--Sources.
- United States.
- Communicable diseases--United States--History--Sources.
- COVID-19 (Disease)--United States--History--Sources.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 485 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2020]
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Opinions Throughout History: Diseases & Epidemics traces the history of some of the most impactful diseases in human history, such as smallpox, measles, the bubonic plague, and HIV, and looks at how these viruses and bacterial plagues affected American politics and culture. The book will also explore the rise and spread of the anti-vaccination and science skepticism movements and their relationship to American and global public health.
- Contents:
- 1. The American plague
- 2. The grinning death
- 3. The children's disease
- 4. The Black Death
- 5. The strangling angel of children
- 6. The colonialist disease
- 7. The first vaccine
- 8. Fear of science
- 9. Another childhood menace
- 10. Measles strikes back
- 11. Yello fever and the mosquito problem
- 12. The riparian plague
- 13. The red rash
- 14. Marsh fever
- 15. The infamous typhoid mary
- 16. A non-Spanish flu
- 17. A presidential disease
- 18. America's disease authority
- 19. The global health problem
- 20. The Asian flu
- 21. The Hong Kong flu
- 22. The DTP controversy
- 23. Human immunodeficiency virus : politics and prejudice
- 24. The autism myth
- 25. The first coronavirus
- 26. The bird flu
- 27. Return of the coronavirus
- 28. America in the age of COVID
- 29. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- ISBN:
- 1642658456
- 9781642658453
- Publisher Number:
- 99987126033
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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