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Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease through...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrison, Mark, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Epidemics > History.
Communicable diseases > History.
International trade > Social aspects > History.
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
Commerce international > Aspect social > Histoire.
Épidémies > Histoire.
HISTORY > World.
Communicable diseases
Epidemics
International trade > Social aspects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • 1 Merchants of death
  • 2 War by other means
  • 3 The evils of quarantine
  • 4 Quarantine and the empire of free trade
  • 5 Yellow fever resurgent
  • 6 A stranglehold on the East
  • 7 Plague and the global economy
  • 8 Protection or protectionism?
  • 9 Disease and globalization
  • Conclusion Sanitary pasts, sanitary futures
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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