The burdens of disease [[electronic resource] ] : epidemics and human response in western history / / J.N. Hays |
Autore | Hays J. N. <1938-> |
Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Epidemics - Social aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-49350-X
9786613588739 0-8135-4817-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. The Western Inheritance -- Two. Medieval Diseases and Responses -- Three. The Great Plague Pandemic -- Four. New Diseases and Transatlantic Exchanges -- Five. Continuity and Change -- Six. Disease and the Enlightenment -- Seven. Cholera and Sanitation -- Eight. Tuberculosis and Poverty -- Nine. Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism -- Ten. The Scientific View of Disease and the Triumph of Professional Medicine -- Eleven. The Apparent End of Epidemics -- Twelve. Disease and Power -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456577403321 |
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The burdens of disease [[electronic resource] ] : epidemics and human response in western history / / J.N. Hays |
Autore | Hays J. N. <1938-> |
Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Epidemics Public Health |
ISBN |
1-280-49350-X
9786613588739 0-8135-4817-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. The Western Inheritance -- Two. Medieval Diseases and Responses -- Three. The Great Plague Pandemic -- Four. New Diseases and Transatlantic Exchanges -- Five. Continuity and Change -- Six. Disease and the Enlightenment -- Seven. Cholera and Sanitation -- Eight. Tuberculosis and Poverty -- Nine. Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism -- Ten. The Scientific View of Disease and the Triumph of Professional Medicine -- Eleven. The Apparent End of Epidemics -- Twelve. Disease and Power -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780830403321 |
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The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / / J.N. Hays |
Autore | Hays J. N. <1938-> |
Edizione | [Rev. ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (391 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Epidemics - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-280-49350-X
9786613588739 0-8135-4817-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. The Western Inheritance -- Two. Medieval Diseases and Responses -- Three. The Great Plague Pandemic -- Four. New Diseases and Transatlantic Exchanges -- Five. Continuity and Change -- Six. Disease and the Enlightenment -- Seven. Cholera and Sanitation -- Eight. Tuberculosis and Poverty -- Nine. Disease, Medicine, and Western Imperialism -- Ten. The Scientific View of Disease and the Triumph of Professional Medicine -- Eleven. The Apparent End of Epidemics -- Twelve. Disease and Power -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822047403321 |
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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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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-9910816433803321 |
Crawford Dorothy H
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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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Epidemics and society : from the Black Death to the present / / Frank M. Snowden |
Autore | Snowden Frank M (Frank Martin), <1946-> |
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-9910819426003321 |
Snowden Frank M (Frank Martin), <1946->
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Have bacteria won? / / Hugh Pennington |
Autore | Pennington T. H (Thomas Hugh) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (78 pages) |
Disciplina | 579.3 |
Collana | New Human Frontiers series |
Soggetto topico |
Bacteria
Viruses Communicable diseases - Prevention Communicable diseases - Treatment World health Epidemics - History |
ISBN | 0-7456-9083-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- One: Why Are We So Worried About Bacteria? -- BSE/CJD -- Necrotizing fasciitis -- Typhoid in Aberdeen -- Leprosy, Ebola and MRSA -- Clostridium difficile, Alexandria -- Two: Victories -- Smallpox -- Diphtheria and syphilis -- Gas and water socialism, pasteurization -- Diet -- Surprises -- Three: The Advance of the Mutants, and Other Novelties -- E. coli -- Salmonella -- Mutant chickens and Campylobacter -- Antibiotic resistance -- Bats and rabies, SARS and Ebola -- Four: How Our Actions Help Bacteria to Win Some Battles -- Anthrax -- Legionnaires' disease: A very modern condition; Learning lessons -- Five: Politics -- Influenza: The slippery disease -- Cholera -- Sexually transmitted diseases: HIV -- Foot and mouth disease: A very political pathogen -- Syphilis: American exceptionalism, again -- Eradication endgames – Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157453803321 |
Pennington T. H (Thomas Hugh)
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Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2016 | ||
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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 |
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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