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Updated edition. |
| Description |
ix, 301 pages ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of health and disease. |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- United States -- History.
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Communicable diseases -- United States -- History.
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Disease Outbreaks -- history.
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Communicable Disease Control -- history.
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Epidemiology -- history.
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United States.
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Communicable diseases. (OCoLC)fst00869883
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Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Gehlbach, Stephen H. American plagues. Updated edition. Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016] 9781442256514 (OCoLC)941999734 |
| ISBN |
9781442256507 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1442256508 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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9781442256514 (electronic bk.) |
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1442256516 (electronic bk.) |
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