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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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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Lanham :
Rowman Littlefield,
[2016]
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Edition: | Updated edition. |
Physical Description: |
ix, 301 pages ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
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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. |
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Physical Description: |
ix, 301 pages ; illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781442256507 1442256508 |