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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822503903321

Autore

Issitt Micah L.

Titolo

Diseases & epidemics / / by Micah L. Issitt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2020]

�2020

ISBN

1-78785-871-5

1-64265-845-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxvii, 485 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits

Collana

Opinions throughout history

Disciplina

614.40973

Soggetti

Epidemics - United States - History

Communicable diseases - United States - History

COVID-19 (Disease) - United States - History

History

Sources.

United States History Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



culture. The book will also explore the rise and the spread of the anti-vaccination and science skepticism movements and their relationship to American and global public health. The history of American diseases and epidemics will be compared to the COVID-19 crisis, the deadliest pandemic in modern U.S. history, which has provided a clear example of how governments and the other organs of the state can help or hinder the international goal of stamping out disease. --