Plagues & poxes [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / / Alfred Jay Bollet |
Autore | Bollet Alfred J |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Demos, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
Soggetto topico | Epidemiology - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-97468-4
9786611974688 1-934559-38-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450403303321 |
Bollet Alfred J | ||
New York, : Demos, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Plagues & poxes [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / / Alfred Jay Bollet |
Autore | Bollet Alfred J |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Demos, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
Soggetto topico | Epidemiology - History |
ISBN |
1-281-97468-4
9786611974688 1-934559-38-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh
Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783534503321 |
Bollet Alfred J | ||
New York, : Demos, c2004 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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