Title Disease : the extraordinary stories behind history's deadliest killers / Mary Dobson.

Imprint

London : Quercus, 2007.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction	614.5 D656	Check Shelf

Description	255 pages : illustrations, portrait
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (page 253) and index.
Contents	Bacterial diseases. Plague ; Leprosy ; Syphilis ; Typhus ; Cholera ; Typhoid ; Tuberculosis ; Puerperal fever ; Encephalitic lethargica -- Parasitic diseases. Malaria ; African trypanosomiasis ; Chagas' disease ; Lymphatic filariasis ; Schistosomiasis ; Hookworm ; Onchocerciasis -- Viral diseases. Smallpox ; Measles ; Yellow fever ; Dengue fever ; Rabies ; Polio ; Influenza ; Ebola ; AIDS ; SARS -- Lifestyle diseases. Scurvy ; Kuru & CJD ; Cancer ; Heart disease.
Summary	The compelling and sometimes frightening stories of 30 deadly diseases - and of humanity's efforts to combat them.
Subject	Diseases.
	Diseases and history.
	Epidemiology -- Popular works.
	Medicine -- History.
	Discoveries in science -- History.
	Discoveries in science. (OCoLC)fst00894959
	Diseases. (OCoLC)fst00895158
	Diseases and history. (OCoLC)fst00895205
	Epidemiology. (OCoLC)fst00914091
	Medicine. (OCoLC)fst01014893
	Communicable Diseases -- history. (DNLM)D003141Q000266
	Bacterial Infections -- history. (DNLM)D001424Q000266
	Life Style. (DNLM)D008019
	Parasitic Diseases -- history. (DNLM)D010272Q000266
	Virus Diseases -- history. (DNLM)D014777Q000266
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
	Popular Work. (DNLM)D020496
ISBN	9781847240149 (hardcover)
	1847240143 (hardcover)
	9781847243997 (cloth)
	1847243991 (cloth)

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