American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach
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| Autore: |
Gehlbach Stephen H.
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| Titolo: |
American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham : , : Rowman Littlefield, , [2016] |
| ©2016 | |
| Edizione: | Updated edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 614.4/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Epidemics - United States - History |
| Communicable diseases - Prevention | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever -- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 -- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination -- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake -- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report -- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau -- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis -- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette -- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study -- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS -- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections -- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past-smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio-offering lessons that help us better understand health problems of today like HIV/AIDS, heart disease and Ebola. Readers learn about these past plagues, those who helped conquer them, and how they shed light on health information of today. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American plagues |
| ISBN: | 1-4422-5651-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809973703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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