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1 online resource (224 pages) |
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; SECTION 1 AIRBORNE; Diphtheria; Influenza; Leprosy; Measles; Scarlet fever; SARS; Smallpox; Tuberculosis (TB); SECTION 2 WATERBORNE; Cholera; Dysentery; Typhoid; SECTION 3 INSECTS and ANIMALS; Malaria; Plague; Typhus; Yellow fever; Zika; SECTION 4 HUMAN TO HUMAN; Polio; Ebola; HIV and AIDS; Syphilis; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Credits |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 15, 2018). |
| Summary |
The Atlas of Disease gives a unique perspective on how epidemics have spread throughout history, from the fourteenth-century plague that devastated Europe and the lethal outbreaks of cholera in the nineteenth century, right up to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the catastrophic spread of zika in Brazil. Interweaving new maps based on the latest available data with historical charts alongside intriguing, often unsettling, contemporary illustrations, this extraordinary book plots the course of some of the most virulent and deadly pandemics around the world. Discover how diseases have changed the course of history, stimulated advances in medicine and how mapping has played a key role in prevention and cure, shaping countless lives. |
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Epidemics -- History.
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Epidemics. (OCoLC)fst00914079
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hempel, Sandra. Atlas of Disease. Minneapolis : Harvard Common Press, ©2018 9781781317907 |
| ISBN |
1781318808 (electronic book) |
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9781781318805 (electronic bk.) |
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9781781317907 |
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1781317909 |
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