E-book
Plagues & poxes the impact of human history on epidemic disease
Record details
- ISBN: 1417590653 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781417590650 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xii, 237 p.) : ill. - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: New York : Demos, c2004.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Epidemiology -- History Disease Outbreaks -- History Communicable Diseases -- History Epidemiology -- History MEDICAL -- Health Risk Assessment MEDICAL -- Epidemiology Epidemiology |
| Genre: | Electronic books. History. |
