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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
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Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, Crawford takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics and exploring how changes in the way humans have lived throughout history have made us vulnerable to microbe attack. As we moved from hunter-gatherers to farmers to city-dwellers, microbes like malaria and smallpox moved...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Beyond their impact on public health, epidemics shape and are shaped by political, economic, and social forces. This book examines this connection, exploring key topics in the study of disease outbreaks and delving deep into specific historical and contemporary examples"--
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. This book argues that the two were intimately connected, examining how people created, combated, avoided, and denied the virulent disease environment; and how disease and human responses to it influenced the region, the South, and the United States"--
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A sweeping look at how the major transformations in history - from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism - have been shaped not by humans but by germs. According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this book, a professor argues that the myth of human exceptionalism overstates the role that we play in social and political change. Instead,...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The definitive social history of tuberculosis, from its origins as a haunting mystery to its modern reemergence that now threatens populations around the world. It killed novelist George Orwell, Eleanor Roosevelt, and millions of others -- rich and poor. Desmond Tutu, Amitabh Bachchan, and Nelson Mandela survived it, just. For centuries, tuberculosis has ravaged cities and plagued the human body. In Phantom Plague, Vidya Krishnan, traces the history...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This history of mankind's battles against infectious diseases looks at how epidemics shaped empires and economies and how medical revolutions freed us from these cycles until new threats caused by changes in global trade and climate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Smash the stories behind famous moments in history and expose the hidden truth. The Black Death of the fourteenth century wouldn't have been as deadly if people had just shut their windows! Right? Wrong! Despite what people thought at the time, a closed window won't do anything against bubonic plague. The truth is, the plague wasn't caused by breathing in "bad air." It was transmitted by infected fleas biting (and, in the process, throwing up into)...
20) The Black death
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Examines the causes, effects, and legacy of the epidemic that killed millions of people in Europe during the fourteenth century.
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