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Author Leone, Bruno, 1939-

Title Disease in history / by Bruno Leone.

Publication Info. San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2016.

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Description 1 online resource
Audience Grades 9 to 12.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Do infectious diseases impact upon history? -- Plague and the fall of the Roman Empire -- Plague and the end of the Middle Ages -- The beginnings of "germ theory" -- Will infectious diseases be conquered?
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Summary Describes several of the epidemics that have significantly influenced historical events; explains how the discovery of germs in the last two centuries was able to reverse millennia of superstition and ignorance in the treatment of infectious diseases; and explains how and why the world of microbial organisms has been able to thwart many of medical science's greatest efforts to eliminate, or, at the very least, control them.
Subject Communicable diseases -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Communicable diseases -- Social aspects -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Plague -- Europe -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Plague -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Communicable diseases. (OCoLC)fst00869883
Communicable diseases -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00869920
Plague. (OCoLC)fst01065045
Plague -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01065056
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Other Form: Print version: Leone, Bruno, 1939- Disease in history. San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2016 9781601529602 (DLC) 2015036750
ISBN 9781601529619 (electronic book)
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