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Great American diseases : their effects on the course of North American history /
Great American Diseases: Their Effects on the Course of North American History presents medical history as it pertains to the major infectious diseases of North America. The book is designed to provide an interesting and engaging introduction to microbiology, immunology and epidemiology. With the ad...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom ; San Diego, CA :
Academic Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a Great American Diseases: Their Effects on the Course of North American History presents medical history as it pertains to the major infectious diseases of North America. The book is designed to provide an interesting and engaging introduction to microbiology, immunology and epidemiology. With the advent of COVID-19, this book will serve as a reference on the history of previous epidemics. The book presents pandemics in an easy-to-read volume and provides concise chapters on the history of a disease, progression of understanding on the pathogen (agent of the disease), and their social ramifications through the history of North America. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Introduction: |t How infectious diseases have shaped American History -- |g 1. |t Infectious diseases and their causes -- |g 2. |t Immunity and recovery from infectious diseases -- |g 3. |t Diseases among the first inhabitants -- |g 4. |t Tuberculosis -- another ancient disease -- |g 5. |t Syphilis and the Columbian exchange -- |g 6. |t Malaria and the ague -- 1492 -- |g 7. |t Smallpox -- 1519: the first vaccines -- |g 8. |t Measles -- 1531: almost gone! -- |g 9. |t Typhoid and typhus -- 1607: smelly differences -- |g 10. |t Yellow fever -- 1647: mosquito-borne invader -- |g 11. |t Cholera -- 1832: a worldwide pandemic -- |g 12. |t Poliomyelitis -- 1841: the triumph of vaccination -- |g 13. |t Infectious diseases and the Civil War -- |g 14. |t Plague and San Francisco -- 1900 -- |g 15. |t Influenza -- 1918: a wartime pandemic -- |g 16. |t A completely new disease: AIDS-1981 -- |g 17. |t Panic and neglect -- 2000-2018 -- |g 18. |t COVID-19: not just another respiratory virus -- 2020. |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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