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Autore |
Issitt Micah L. |
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Diseases & epidemics / / by Micah L. Issitt |
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Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2020] |
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�2020 |
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ISBN |
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1-78785-871-5 |
1-64265-845-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxvii, 485 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits |
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Collana |
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Opinions throughout history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Epidemics - United States - History |
Communicable diseases - United States - History |
COVID-19 (Disease) - United States - History |
History |
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United States History Sources |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Opinions Throughout History: Disease & 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 |
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