Kenneth F. Kiple (ed.)

The Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease

Herausgeber: Kiple, Kenneth F.

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Produktbeschreibung

The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (CWHHD) was first published by Cambridge in 1993. The last section of the work comprises a history and description of the world's major diseases of yesterday and today in chapters organized alphabetically from "Acquired Immune Deficient Syndrome (AIDS)" to "Yellow Fever."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780521530262
• ISBN-10: 0521530261
• Artikelnr.: 21598801

Inhaltsangabe

1. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
2. African Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness
3. Ainhum
4. Alzheimer's disease
5. Amebic dysentery n
6. Anemia
7. Anorexia Nervosa
8. Anthrax
9. Apoplexy and Stroke
10. Arboviruses
11. Arenaviruses
12. Arthritis (rheumatoid)
13. Ascariasis
14. Bacillary dysentery
15. Beriberi
16. The Black Death
17. Black and brown lung disease
18. Bleeding disorders
19. Botulism
20. Brucellosis (Malta Fever, Undulant Fever)
21. Bubonic plague
22. Cancer
23. Carrion's disease (Oroya fever)
24. Catarrh
25. Cestode infection
26. Chagas' disease
27. Chlorosis
28. Cholera
29. Cirrhosis
30. Clonorchiasis
31. Croup
32. Cystic Fibrosis
33. Cytomegalovirus infection
34. Dengue
35. Diabetes
36. Diarrheal diseases (Acute)
37. Diphtheria
38. Down Syndrome
39. Dracunculiasis
40. Dropsy
41. Dysentery
42. Dyspepsia
43. Ebola virus disease
44. Echinococcosis (Hydatidosis)
45. Eclampsia
46. Emphysema
47. Encephalitis Lethargica
48. Enterobiasis
49. Epilepsy
50. Ergotism
51. Erysipelas
52. Fascioliasis
53. Fasciolopsiasis
54. Favism
55. Filariasis
56. Fungus infections (Mycoses)
57. Fungus poisoning
58. Gallstones (Cholelithiasis)
59. Gangrene
60. Genetic disease Eric J. Devor
61. Giardiasis
62. Glomerulonephritis (Bright's disease)
63. Goiter
64. Gonorrhea
65. Gout
66. Heart-related diseases
67. Herpes Simplex
68. Herpesviruses
69. Histoplasmosis
70. Hookworm infection
71. Huntington's disease (Chorea)
72. Hypertension
73. Infectious hepatitis
74. Infectious Mononucleosis 75. Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative, Colitis)
76. Influenza
77. Japanese B Encephalitis
78. Lactose intolerance and malabsorption
79. Lassa fever
80. Lead poisoning 81. Legionnaires' disease (Legionellosis, Pontiac Fever, Legionella Pneumonia)
82. Leishmaniasis
83. Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
84. Leptospirosis 85. Leukemia
86. Lupus Erythematosus
87. Lyme Borreliosis (Lyme Disease) 88. Malaria
89. Marburg virus disease
90. Mastoiditis
91. Measles
92. Meningitis
93. Milk sickness (tremetol poisoning)
94. Multiple Sclerosis
95. Mumps
96. Muscular dystrophy
97. Myasthenia Gravis
98. Nematode infection
99. Onchocerciasis
100. Ophthalmia (trachoma, conjunctivitis)
101. Osteoarthritis
102. Osteoporosis
103. Paget's disease of Bone
104. Paragonimiasis
105. Parkinson's disease (Parkinsonism)
106. Pellagra
107. Periodontal disease (Pyorrhea)
108. Pica
109. Pinta
110. Plague of Athens
111. Pneumocystis pneumonia (interstitial plasma cell pneumonia, pneumocystosis)
112. Pneumonia
113. Poliomyelitis
114. Protein-energy malnutrition
115. Protozoan infection
116. Puerperal fever
117. Q fever
118. Rabies
119. Relapsing fever
120. Rheumatic fever and Rheumatic heart disease
121. Rickets and Osteomalacia
122. Rickettsial diseases
123. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and related diseases
124. Rubella
125. Saint Anthony's Fire 126. Scarlet fever
127. Schistosomiasis
128. Scrofula
129. Scurvy
130. Sickle-Cell Anemia
131. Smallpox
132. Streptococcal diseases
133. Strongyloidiasis
134. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
135. Sudden unexplained death syndrome (Asian SUDS)
136. Sweating sickness 137. Syphilis
138. Syphilis, nonvenereal
139. Tapeworm infection
140. Tay-Sachs disease
141. Tetanus
142. Tetanus, neonatal
143. Tetany
144. Toxoplasmosis
145. Trematode infection
146. Trench fever
147. The Treponematoses
148. Trichinosis
149. Trichuriasis
150. Tuberculosis
151. Tularemia
152. Typhoid fever
153. Typhomalarial fever
154. Typhus, epidemic
155. Typhus, Murine
156. Typhus, scrub (Tsutsugamushi)
157. Urolithiasis
158. Varicella-Zoster virus disease (Chickenpox)
159. Whooping cough
160. Yaws
161. Yellow fever.