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 |
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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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| 2019 | ||
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