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Ending epidemics : a history of escape from contagion / Richard Conniff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Conniff, Richard, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics--History.
- Epidemics.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Preface: The healing
- What the draper saw
- Deadly preconceptions
- Foreign bodies
- Precursors
- Ridiculous diseases, inconceivable ideas
- Buying the pox
- Slaying the speckled monster
- An angel's trumpet
- The great sanitary awakening
- Finding Pathogens
- The Semmelweis reflex
- Making sense of cholera
- The Broad Street pump
- Louis Pasteur: the rising
- The subtle foe
- The mystery of the cursed meadows
- A new vaccine
- The bible of bacteriology
- Defining the indefinable something
- (Re)discovering cholera
- A sacred delirium
- Immunity and the strangling angel
- Deadly carriers
- The beast in the mosquito
- Fit for duty
- A pathogen too far
- Midnight work
- The antibacterial revolution
- Penicillin
- Race to the vaccine
- Zero pox
- Epilogue: The plague next time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-340) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Conniff, Richard, 1951- Ending epidemics
- ISBN:
- 9780262047968
- 0262047969
- OCLC:
- 1336407593
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