Mark D. Hardt

History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the evolution of urban social patterns and infectious diseases. Tracing the historical record, it explores the human struggle to contain infectious disease and the adaption of microbes to these measures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781498530774
• ISBN-10: 149853077X
• Artikelnr.: 48696052

Autorenporträt

By Mark D. Hardt

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue Chapter 1: The Past: Human Populations Prior to Sedentary Life
Styles Chapter 2: Origins of the Urban Death Penalty: Civilized Diseases
Chapter 3: The First Rural-Urban Turnaround Chapter 4: Infectious Diseases
and Medical Traditions in the Levant Chapter 5: Emergence of the
Enlightenment Chapter Six: Advancement of Science and Medicine Chapter 7:
Inoculation and Infectious Disease Chapter 8: A Review of the Urban Death
Penalty Chapter 9: Postlogue