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Diseases & epidemics
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Title
Diseases & epidemics / Micah L. Issitt.
ISBN
9781787858718
1642658456
9781642658446
1642658448
9781642658453
Edition
[Enhanced Credo edition]
Publication
Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]
Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (39 entries) : 79 images ; digital files.
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Description based on title page of print version.
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Summary
Opinions Throughout History: Diseases & Epidemics traces the history of some of the most impactful diseases in human history, such as smallpox, measles, the bubonic plague, and HIV, and looks at how these viruses and bacterial plagues affected American politics and culture. The book will also explore the rise and spread of the anti-vaccination and science skepticism movements and their relationship to American and global public health.
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Diseases and epidemics
Credo reference.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 16, 2024
Series
Opinions throughout history ; [13]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
1. The American plague
2. The grinning death
3. The children's disease
4. The Black Death
5. The strangling angel of children
6. The colonialist disease
7. The first vaccine
8. Fear of science
9. Another childhood menace
10. Measles strikes back
11. Yellow fever and the mosquito problem
12. The riparian plague
13. The red rash
14. Marsh fever
15. The infamous Typhoid Mary
16. A non-Spanish flu
17. A presidential disease
18. America's disease authority
19. The global health problem
20. The Asian flu
21. The Hong Kong flu
22. The DTP controversy
23. Human immunodeficiency virus : politics and prejudice
24. The autism myth
25. The first coronavirus
26. The bird flu
27. Return of the coronavirus
28. America in the age of COVID
29. Conclusion.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Epidemics - history
Communicable Diseases
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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