Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The book illuminates the critical dual roles of viral biology and increasing global interconnectedness.
Written by a public health practitioner and a medical historian, Viral Pandemics explores the terrifying world of viruses as the cause of all acute pandemics since 1900, including the COVID-19 pandemic. The book illuminates the critical dual roles of viral biology and increasing global interconnectedness.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rae-Ellen W. Kavey, MD, MPH is a pediatric cardiologist and public health practitioner with a career-long commitment to traditional medicine and to a public health approach to prevention of heart disease beginning in childhood. While at the National Institutes of Health, she directed development of the current national guidelines for pediatric cardiovascular health. Author of more than a hundred articles and four book chapters, she is currently a consultant to the NIH Pediatric Heart Network, an instructor in the Department of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester Medical Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she has been teaching the epidemiology of epidemics to undergraduates. Allison B. Kavey, MD, MPH is a professor of history at CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Centre. She specializes in early modern history of natural philosophy and has written on alchemy and books of secrets, as well as Agrippa von Nettesheim's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. She has taught extensively in the history of medicine and written on the history of anatomy, most recently relating to Shelley's Frankenstein. She holds a doctorate in the history of medicine from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Inhaltsangabe
1. A Brief Introduction to Virology: Preventing the Unknown. 2. The Smallpox Story: Gone but not Forgotten. 3. Yellow Fever: The Jungle Story 4. The Great Influenza: A Virus for All Time 5. Polio: The Plague of Summer 6. HIV and AIDS: The Never-Ending Story 7. Out of Nowhere: West Nile Virus, SARS, Zika, and Ebola 8. A Way Forward. 9. And Now, as Promised: The 2019 SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Pandemic
Preface
1. A Brief Introduction to Virology
2. The Smallpox Story: Gone but Not Forgotten
3. Yellow Fever: The Jungle Story
4. The Great Influenza: A Virus for All Time
5. Polio: The Plague of Summer.
6. HIV & AIDS: The Never-Ending Story
7. OUT OF NOWHERE: West Nile Virus/ SARS/ Zika/ EBOLA
8: AND NOW AS PROMISED: The SARS-Cov-2/ COVID-19 Pandemic
1. A Brief Introduction to Virology: Preventing the Unknown. 2. The Smallpox Story: Gone but not Forgotten. 3. Yellow Fever: The Jungle Story 4. The Great Influenza: A Virus for All Time 5. Polio: The Plague of Summer 6. HIV and AIDS: The Never-Ending Story 7. Out of Nowhere: West Nile Virus, SARS, Zika, and Ebola 8. A Way Forward. 9. And Now, as Promised: The 2019 SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 Pandemic
Preface
1. A Brief Introduction to Virology
2. The Smallpox Story: Gone but Not Forgotten
3. Yellow Fever: The Jungle Story
4. The Great Influenza: A Virus for All Time
5. Polio: The Plague of Summer.
6. HIV & AIDS: The Never-Ending Story
7. OUT OF NOWHERE: West Nile Virus/ SARS/ Zika/ EBOLA
8: AND NOW AS PROMISED: The SARS-Cov-2/ COVID-19 Pandemic
9: Mpox: Out of nowhere all over again?
10: A LOOK BACK (ABK)
11: A WAY FORWARD (REK)
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