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The burdens of disease [[electronic resource] ] : epidemics and human response in western history / / J.N. Hays
| 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 |
Hays J. N. <1938->
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| New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 | ||
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The burdens of disease [[electronic resource] ] : epidemics and human response in western history / / J.N. Hays
| 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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Hays J. N. <1938->
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| New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The burdens of disease : epidemics and human response in western history / / J.N. Hays
| 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 |
9786613588739
9781280493508 128049350X 9780813548173 0813548179 |
| 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-9910967194503321 |
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Hays J. N. <1938->
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| New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, c2009 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Crawford Dorothy H
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Duel Without End : Mankind's Battle with Microbes / / Stig S. Frøland ; translated by John Irons
| Duel Without End : Mankind's Battle with Microbes / / Stig S. Frøland ; translated by John Irons |
| Autore | Frøland Stig S. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (633 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 614.49 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | IronsJohn |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - History
Communicable diseases - History Microbiology - History |
| ISBN | 1-78914-506-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue: the invisible enemy -- The duellists -- The third factor: ecology and the environment -- A bird's-eye view of the history of human infection -- Major epidemics and pandemics: examples from history -- Mysterious epidemics in history -- The contribution made by epidemics to the fall of empires -- New infections, new challenges -- When microbes are used as weapons -- Homo sapiens strikes back -- New challenges from the microbes -- and possible countermeasures -- Epilogue: the never-ending duel. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910886378003321 |
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Frøland Stig S.
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| London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , [2022] | ||
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| 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 |
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Snowden Frank M.
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| New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Snowden Frank M (Frank Martin), <1946->
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| 2019 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Have bacteria won? / / Hugh Pennington
| 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 |
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Pennington T. H (Thomas Hugh)
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| Cambridge, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Polity, , 2016 | ||
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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 |
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Hardt Mark D. <1955->
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 | ||
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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-9910825495903321 |
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Hardt Mark D. <1955->
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| Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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