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 |
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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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Diseases & epidemics / / by Micah L. Issitt
| Diseases & epidemics / / by Micah L. Issitt |
| Autore | Issitt Micah L. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 485 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits |
| Disciplina | 614.40973 |
| Collana | Opinions throughout history |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - United States - History
Communicable diseases - United States - History COVID-19 (Disease) - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Sources. |
| ISBN |
1-78785-871-5
1-64265-845-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. The American plague -- 2. The grinning death -- 3. The children's disease -- 4. The Black Death -- 5. The strangling angel of children -- 6. The colonialist disease -- 7. The first vaccine -- 8. Fear of science -- 9. Another childhood menace -- 10. Measles strikes back -- 11. Yellow fever and the mosquito problem -- 12. The riparian plague -- 13. The red rash -- 14. Marsh fever -- 15. The infamous typhoid mary -- 16. A non-Spanish flu -- 17. A presidential disease -- 18. America's disease authority -- 19. The global health problem -- 20. The Asian flu -- 21. The Hong Kong flu -- 22. The DTP controversy -- 23. Human immunodeficiency virus : politics and prejudice -- 24. The autism myth -- 25. The first coronavirus -- 26. The bird flu -- 27. Return of the coronavirus -- 28. America in the age of COVID -- 29. Conclusion. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Diseases and epidemics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795393203321 |
Issitt Micah L.
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| Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2020] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diseases & epidemics / / by Micah L. Issitt
| Diseases & epidemics / / by Micah L. Issitt |
| Autore | Issitt Micah L. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 485 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits |
| Disciplina | 614.40973 |
| Collana | Opinions throughout history |
| Soggetto topico |
Epidemics - United States - History
Communicable diseases - United States - History COVID-19 (Disease) - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Sources. |
| ISBN |
1-78785-871-5
1-64265-845-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. The American plague -- 2. The grinning death -- 3. The children's disease -- 4. The Black Death -- 5. The strangling angel of children -- 6. The colonialist disease -- 7. The first vaccine -- 8. Fear of science -- 9. Another childhood menace -- 10. Measles strikes back -- 11. Yellow fever and the mosquito problem -- 12. The riparian plague -- 13. The red rash -- 14. Marsh fever -- 15. The infamous typhoid mary -- 16. A non-Spanish flu -- 17. A presidential disease -- 18. America's disease authority -- 19. The global health problem -- 20. The Asian flu -- 21. The Hong Kong flu -- 22. The DTP controversy -- 23. Human immunodeficiency virus : politics and prejudice -- 24. The autism myth -- 25. The first coronavirus -- 26. The bird flu -- 27. Return of the coronavirus -- 28. America in the age of COVID -- 29. Conclusion. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Diseases and epidemics |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822503903321 |
Issitt Micah L.
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| Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2020] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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