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American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease

Title
  1. American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach.
Published by
  1. Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016]
  2. ©2016
Author
  1. Gehlbach, Stephen H.

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Description
  1. ix, 301 pages ; illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of health and disease.
Subject
  1. Epidemics > United States > History
  2. Communicable diseases > United States > History
  3. Disease Outbreaks > history
  4. Communicable Disease Control > history
  5. Epidemiology > history
  6. Communicable diseases
  7. Epidemics
  8. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JFE 17-1083
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Gehlbach, Stephen H., author.
Title
  1. American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach.
Publisher
  1. Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016]
Copyright date
  1. ©2016
Edition
  1. Updated edition.
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Gehlbach, Stephen H. American plagues. Updated edition. Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016] 9781442256514 (OCoLC)941999734
LCCN
  1. 2016000169
Other standard identifier
  1. 40026013266
ISBN
  1. 9781442256507 hardcover alkaline paper
  2. 1442256508 hardcover alkaline paper
Research call number
  1. JFE 17-1083
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