How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Richard Conniff is a National Magazine Award-winning writer for Smithsonian magazine, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and other publications, and a past Guggenheim Fellow. Among his many books are The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth; Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals; The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide; and, most recently, House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth. Conniff has been a commentator on NPR's Marketplace and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
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Preface: The Healing 1: What the Draper Saw 2: Deadly Preconceptions 3: Foreign Bodies 4: Precursors 5: Ridiculous Diseases, Inconceivable Ideas 6: Buying the Pox 7: Slaying the Speckled Monster 8: An Angel’s Trumpet 9: The Great Sanitary Awakening 10: Finding Pathogens 11: The Semmelweis Reflex 12: Making Sense of Cholera 13: The Broad Street Pump 14: Louis Pasteur: The Rising 15: The Subtle Foe 16: The Mystery of the Cursed Meadows 17: A New Vaccine 18: The Bible of Bacteriology 19: Defining the Indefinable Something 20: (Re)Discovering Cholera 21: A Sacred Delirium 22: Immunity and the Strangling Angel 23: Deadly Carriers 24: The Beast in the Mosquito 25: Fit for Duty 26: A Pathogen Too Far 27: Midnight Work 28: The Anti-Bacterial Revolution 29: Penicillin 30: Race to the Vaccine 31: Zero Pox Epilogue Acknowledgments Endnotes Index
Preface: The Healing 1: What the Draper Saw 2: Deadly Preconceptions 3: Foreign Bodies 4: Precursors 5: Ridiculous Diseases, Inconceivable Ideas 6: Buying the Pox 7: Slaying the Speckled Monster 8: An Angel’s Trumpet 9: The Great Sanitary Awakening 10: Finding Pathogens 11: The Semmelweis Reflex 12: Making Sense of Cholera 13: The Broad Street Pump 14: Louis Pasteur: The Rising 15: The Subtle Foe 16: The Mystery of the Cursed Meadows 17: A New Vaccine 18: The Bible of Bacteriology 19: Defining the Indefinable Something 20: (Re)Discovering Cholera 21: A Sacred Delirium 22: Immunity and the Strangling Angel 23: Deadly Carriers 24: The Beast in the Mosquito 25: Fit for Duty 26: A Pathogen Too Far 27: Midnight Work 28: The Anti-Bacterial Revolution 29: Penicillin 30: Race to the Vaccine 31: Zero Pox Epilogue Acknowledgments Endnotes Index
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