American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach
| American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach |
| Autore | Gehlbach Stephen H. |
| Edizione | [Updated edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman Littlefield, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - United States - History
Communicable diseases - Prevention |
| ISBN | 1-4422-5651-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798299703321 |
Gehlbach Stephen H.
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| Lanham : , : Rowman Littlefield, , [2016] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach
| American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach |
| Autore | Gehlbach Stephen H. |
| Edizione | [Updated edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman Littlefield, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/0973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - United States - History
Communicable diseases - Prevention |
| ISBN | 1-4422-5651-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809973703321 |
Gehlbach Stephen H.
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| Lanham : , : Rowman Littlefield, , [2016] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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