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The great Manchurian plague of 1910-1911 : the geopolitics of an epidemic disease /

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case histor...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Summers, William C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Plague comes to Manchuria
  • The Manchurian question
  • The plague
  • The international plague conference and its aftermath
  • The plague's origin : disease ecology
  • Plague and politics
  • Epilogue : a century later.