The power of plagues / Irwin W. Sherman.
By: Sherman, Irwin W.
Contributor(s): American Society for Microbiology.
Material type: BookPublisher: Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2006Description: ix, 431 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.ISBN: 1555813569 (alk. paper); 9781555813567 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Communicable diseases -- History | Epidemics -- History | Diseases and history | Communicable Diseases -- history | Communicable Disease Control -- history | Disease Outbreaks -- historyOnline resources: Table of contents onlyItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-419) and index.
The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A modern plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues -- The plague protectors -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Plagues without germs -- Plagues on order.
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