American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease /

"Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today's struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart dis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gehlbach, Stephen H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2016]
Edición:Updated edition.
Temas:
Epidemics > United States > History.
Epidemiology.
Disease Outbreaks > history
Communicable Disease Control > history
Epidemiology > history
Epidemiology
Épidémiologie.
Épidémies > États-Unis > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Epidemics
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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