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The deadly truth : a history of disease in America / Gerald N. Grob.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grob, Gerald N., 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diseases--America--History.
- Diseases.
- Medicine--America--History.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (368 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- 1 The Pre-Columbians
- 2 New Diseases in the Americas
- 3 Colonies of Sickness
- 4 The Promise of Enlightened Health
- 5 Threats to Urban Health
- 6 Expanding America, Declining Health
- 7 Threats of Industry
- 8 Stopping the Spread of Infection
- 9 The Discovery of Chronic Illness
- 10 No Final Victory
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-338) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-03794-4
- OCLC:
- 923110836
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