World atlas of epidemic diseases
by Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Haggett, Peter, Cliff, Andrew
by Smallman-Raynor, Matthew, Haggett, Peter, Cliff, Andrew
"The euphoria about the defeat of epidemics which surrounded the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s proved short-lived. The advent of AIDS in the following decade, the widening spectrum of other newly-emergent diseases (from Ebola to Hanta virus), and the resurgence of …
Preface Part 1 Introduction Part 2 The Classic Plagues, I Part 3 The Classic Plagues, II Part 4 Persistent Scourges Part 5 Children's Diseases Part 6 Winter and Seasonal Ailments Part 7 Tropical Diseases I Part 8 Tropical Diseases II Part 9 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Part 10 N…
"The euphoria about the defeat of epidemics which surrounded the global eradication of smallpox in the 1970s proved short-lived. The advent of AIDS in the following decade, the widening spectrum of other newly-emergent diseases (from Ebola to Hanta virus), and the resurgence of …
by Project Muse, Hamlin, Christopher
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Christopher Hamlin’s magisterial work engages a common experience—fever—in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with th…
This work engages a common experience--fever--in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, wit…
This work engages a common experience--fever--in all its varieties and meanings. Reviewing the representations of that condition from ancient times to the present, More Than Hot is a history of the world through the lens of fever. The book deals with the expression of fever, wit…
Clifford Trafzer's disturbing new work, Death Stalks the Yakama, examines life, death, and the shockingly high mortality rates that have persisted among the fourteen tribes and bands living on the Yakama Reservation in the state of Washington. The work contains a valuable discus…