American plagues lessons from our battles with disease /

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 t...

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Main Author: Gehlbach, Stephen H. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016]
Edition:Updated edition.
Physical Description:
ix, 301 pages ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Epidemics -- United States -- History.
Communicable diseases -- United States -- History.
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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 health and disease.
Physical Description:
ix, 301 pages ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442256507
1442256508

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