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American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gehlbach, Stephen H., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--United States--History.
- Epidemics.
- Epidemiology.
- Epidemiology--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemiology.
- Epidemiology--history.
- Communicable Disease Control--history.
- Disease Outbreaks--history.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- Updated edition.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past-smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio-offering lessons that help us better understand health problems of today like HIV/AIDS, heart disease and Ebola. Readers learn about these past plagues, those who helped conquer them, and how they shed light on health information of today.
- Contents:
- Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever
- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721
- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination
- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake
- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report
- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau
- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis
- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette
- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study
- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS
- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections
- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40696-9
- 1-4422-5651-6
- OCLC:
- 945612303
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