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Author | : Kenneth F. Kiple |
Publisher | : Phoenix |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Communicable diseases |
ISBN | : 9780753807125 |
Covering some of humankind's most notorious diseases, this book describes, with individual examples, the changing historical relationships between humans and their diseases, many of which they have helped to create. Contemporary illustrations show how the diseases were perceived in the past.
Author | : Richard Platt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Animals as carriers of disease |
ISBN | : 9780753431689 |
Tells the history of diseases and epidemics and presents some information on efforts to fight them.
Author | : Elaine Willis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780760707401 |
Although the invention of agriculture was the most important event in the history of civilization, it was a disaster for human health. Hunter-gatherers, frequently on the move, ate a great variety of foods and seldom paused in one place long enough to allow diseases to flourish. As people settled, living cheek to jowl with their newly domesticated animals, water teemed with pathogens, waste piled up, and nutrition deteriorated as diets focused on just a few items. Diseases became rampant. The build-up of large urban populations bred new and even more deadly diseases. Restless humans -- marauders, missionaries, merchants -- carried these strains across the world to communities never exposed to them. Death on epic scales ensued. The plague, scrofula, leprosy -- all these flourished in the early modern world. War was a harbinger of death in more ways than the traditional -- whenever soldiers were drawn together in large groups the potential for an epidemic increased exponentially. Some diseases in particular are linked to war; typhus, because it killed more soldiers and sailors than they have killed each other; cholera, which is carried by contaminated water; scurvy, 'the sailors' disease;; and syphilis, which burst upon the world from a battlefield. In this ... illustrated survey of disease in history, Kenneth Kiple, editor of The Cambridge World History of Human Disease, has brought together a team of experts to show for the first time how our world is the product of disease -- and its eradication.
Author | : Linda Jacobs Altman |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishers |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780894909573 |
Plagues have afflicted humankind throughout its history. From the Black Death to Ebola, author Linda Jacobs Altman traces our battles against infectious disease. Despite medical advances, the fight against these diseases is far from over.
Author | : Peter Furtado |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780500252581 |
Author | : Howard Phillips |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1431403857 |
Over the last decades, we have seen more than three dozen new infectious diseases appear, some of which could kill millions of people with one or two unlucky gene mutations or one or two unfavourable environmental changes.
Author | : George C. Kohn |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438129238 |
Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Third Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject. This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 700.
Author | : James Cross Giblin |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997-04-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780613021029 |
The author of The Truth About Unicorns narrates the stories of three major disease epidemics--the bubonic plague, smallpox, and AIDS--that have ravaged humanity and changed the course of human history, detailing the social, political, and cultural re
Author | : Ben Hubbard |
Publisher | : Franklin Watts |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : COVID-19 (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9781445179605 |
This book examines history's most destructive pandemics including The Black Death (Bubonic Plague); The Great Plague of London, the 1918 Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS and more. It uses a narrative structure to describe the causes, events and eventual cessation of each outbreak. It features case stories of those affected, the science behind each disease, the physical symptoms and effects, and the different approaches to stopping or eradicating the diseases. This is a highly topical book that addresses the outbreak of COVID-19. It offers a message of hope to those worried or affected by COVID-19. That is, that pandemics come and go, people have survived through them, and with each one our understanding of how to slow or stop them increases. The book features illustrations and etchings from the Middle Ages and photographs from pandemics later in history.
Author | : John Townsend |
Publisher | : Capstone Classroom |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781410913388 |
Describes the symptoms and treatment of certain illnesses throughout history, including scurvy, yellow fever, measles, typhoid, and polio.