Diseases & epidemics /

Traces the history of some of the most impactful diseases in human history, such as smallpox, measles, the bubonic plague, and HIV, and looks at how these viruses and bacterial plagues affected American politics and culture. The book also explores the rise and the spread of the anti-vaccination and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Issitt, Micah L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]
Colección:Opinions throughout history ; 13.
Temas:
Epidemics > United States > History > Sources.
Communicable diseases > United States > History > Sources.
COVID-19 (Disease) > United States > History > Sources.
Maladies infectieuses > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
COVID-19 > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
Épidémies > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
Communicable diseases
COVID-19 (Disease)
Epidemics
United States
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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