What disease was plague? : on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past /

In this monograph, the alternative theories to the established bubonic-plague theory as to the microbiological identity of historical plague epidemics are intensively discussed in the light of the historical sources and the medical primary research and standard works.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Benedictow, Ole Jørgen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Brill's series in the history of the environment ; v. 2.
Temas:
Plague > Microbiology.
Plague > Epidemiology.
Plague > History.
Communicable diseases > History.
Plague > history
Plague > epidemiology
Plague > microbiology
Peste > Microbiologie.
Peste > Épidémiologie.
Peste > Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
Communicable diseases
Plague
Plague > Epidemiology
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The issue and the problems
  • The ethics of scholarly work
  • Rats
  • The spread of bubonic plague over distances
  • Mortality in india
  • Was historical plague a viral or bacterial disease? : the question of immunity
  • Defining feature 1 : latency periods
  • Defining feature 2 : inverse correlation between mortality rate and population density
  • Defining feature 3 : buboes as a normal clinical feature in epidemics
  • Defining feature 4 : DNA of yersinia pestis from plague graves
  • Defining feature 5 : seasonality of bubonic plague
  • The beginning : the alternative theories of Shrewsbury and Morris
  • Gunnar Karlsson's alternative theory : that historical plague was pure epidemics of primary pneumonic plague
  • Twigg's alternative theory
  • The alternative theory of Scott and Duncan
  • Cohn's alternative theory.

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