Stephen H Gehlbach

American Plagues

Lessons from Our Battles with Disease

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past-smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio-offering lessons that help us better understand health problems of today like HIV/AIDS, heart disease and Ebola. Readers learn about these past plagues, those who helped conquer them, and how they shed light on health information of today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780810894969
• ISBN-10: 0810894963
• Artikelnr.: 49445066

Autorenporträt

By Stephen H. Gehlbach

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1: Gunpowder and Calomel: Benjamin Rush and the Malignant Yellow
Fever 2: Doctors and Ministers: Smallpox in Boston, 1721 3: Noddle's Island
Experiment: Benjamin Waterhouse and Vaccination 4: Scourge of the Middle
West: Autumnal Fever and Daniel Drake 5: Improving the Numbers: Lemuel
Shattuck's Report 6: Adirondack Cure: Consumption and Edward Trudeau 7: The
Beginning and the End: Epidemic Poliomyelitis 8: A Cancer Grows: Edward
Murrow and the Cigarette 9: Searching America's Heart: the Framingham Study
10: A Cure for Complacency: HIV/AIDS 11: Too Little, Too Much: Healthcare
Related Infections 12: Another Kind of Plague: Measles and Misinformation