Deadly companions : how microbes shaped our history / / Dorothy H. Crawford
| Deadly companions : how microbes shaped our history / / Dorothy H. Crawford |
| Autore | Crawford Dorothy H |
| Edizione | [New updated edition, second edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Infection - History Communicable diseases - History Diseases and history Communicable diseases Epidemics Infection |
| Soggetto genere / forma | History |
| ISBN |
0-19-255298-8
0-19-255297-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | How it all began -- Our microbial inheritance -- Microbes jump species -- Crowds, filth and poverty -- Microbes go global -- Famine and devastation -- Deadly companions revealed -- The fight back. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796921803321 |
Crawford Dorothy H
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Epidemics and society [[electronic resource] ] : from the Black Death to the present / / Frank M. Snowden
| Epidemics and society [[electronic resource] ] : from the Black Death to the present / / Frank M. Snowden |
| Autore | Snowden Frank M. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (599 pages) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
| Collana | The Open Yale Courses Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Epidemics Public health Communicable diseases - History Epidemiology |
| ISBN | 0-300-24914-4 |
| Classificazione | 28.24.08 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen -- 4. Plague as a Disease -- 5. Responses to Plague -- 6. Smallpox before Edward Jenner -- 7. The Historical Impact of Smallpox -- 8. War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution -- 9. War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812 -- 10. The Paris School of Medicine -- 11. The Sanitary Movement -- 12. The Germ Theory of Disease -- 13. Cholera -- 14. Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption -- 15. Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion -- 16. The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay -- 17. Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History -- 18. Polio and the Problem of Eradication -- 19. HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa -- 20. HIV/AIDS: The Experience -- 21. Emerging and Reemerging Diseases -- 22. Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793868003321 |
Snowden Frank M.
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] | ||
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Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present / / Frank M. Snowden
| Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present / / Frank M. Snowden |
| Autore | Snowden Frank M (Frank Martin), <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (599 pages) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
| Collana | The Open Yale Courses Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Epidemics Public health Communicable diseases - History Epidemiology |
| ISBN | 0-300-24914-4 |
| Classificazione | 28.24.08 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Humoral Medicine: The Legacy of Hippocrates and Galen -- 4. Plague as a Disease -- 5. Responses to Plague -- 6. Smallpox before Edward Jenner -- 7. The Historical Impact of Smallpox -- 8. War and Disease: Napoleon, Yellow Fever, and the Haitian Revolution -- 9. War and Disease: Napoleon, Dysentery, and Typhus in Russia, 1812 -- 10. The Paris School of Medicine -- 11. The Sanitary Movement -- 12. The Germ Theory of Disease -- 13. Cholera -- 14. Tuberculosis in the Romantic Era of Consumption -- 15. Tuberculosis in the Unromantic Era of Contagion -- 16. The Third Plague Pandemic: Hong Kong and Bombay -- 17. Malaria and Sardinia: Uses and Abuses of History -- 18. Polio and the Problem of Eradication -- 19. HIV/AIDS: An Introduction and the Case of South Africa -- 20. HIV/AIDS: The Experience -- 21. Emerging and Reemerging Diseases -- 22. Dress Rehearsals for the Twenty-First Century: SARS and Ebola -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910959404103321 |
Snowden Frank M (Frank Martin), <1946->
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies / / Mark D. Hardt
| History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies / / Mark D. Hardt |
| Autore | Hardt Mark D. <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Diseases and history |
| ISBN | 0-7391-8027-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797712603321 |
Hardt Mark D. <1955->
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 | ||
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History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies / / Mark D. Hardt
| History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies / / Mark D. Hardt |
| Autore | Hardt Mark D. <1955-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Diseases and history |
| ISBN | 0-7391-8027-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825495903321 |
Hardt Mark D. <1955->
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Plagues & poxes [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / / Alfred Jay Bollet
| 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
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| New York, : Demos, c2004 | ||
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Plagues & poxes [[electronic resource] ] : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / / Alfred Jay Bollet
| 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
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| New York, : Demos, c2004 | ||
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Plagues and peoples / / William H. McNeill
| Plagues and peoples / / William H. McNeill |
| Autore | McNeill William Hardy <1917-2016> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Anchor Books Doubleday, 1998, c1976 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p. ) |
| Disciplina | 614.4/9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Civilization - History Public Health Health & Biological Sciences Epidemiology & Epidemics |
| ISBN | 0-307-77366-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Man the hunter -- Breakthrough to history -- Confluence of the civilized disease pools of Eurasia: 500 B.C. to A.D. 1200 -- The impact of the Mongol Empire on shifting disease balances, 1200-1500 -- Transoceanic exchanges, 1500-1700 -- The ecological impact of medical science and organization since 1700. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996248102603316 |
McNeill William Hardy <1917-2016>
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| New York, : Anchor Books Doubleday, 1998, c1976 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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