American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH.
American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH.
American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH.
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Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
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G 2020/5268
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 301 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever -- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 -- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination -- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake -- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's re...
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Publisher
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Edition
Updated edition.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio ... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of hea...
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American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-283) and index.
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©2016
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G 2020/5268
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74VKaJmrO8gl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJmrO8gl
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ISBN
9781442256507
DDC
614.40973
MMS ID
991024368712302626
