This comprehensive, fascinating journey through the history of epidemics focuses on the less-told story of how societies have responded to them - and what those responses reveal about their fears, their believes, and their times. When most of us hear the word epidemic, we think plague, festering wounds, unmitigated disease followed by death. A ...
the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge in deadly outbreaks with such disasterous results. It is our knowledge of their secret lives in the moist and teeming rain forests that gives us hope of taming future epidemics.
Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. ...
In this sweeping approach to the history of disease, historian J.N. Hays chronicles perceptions and responses to plague and pestilence over two thousand years of western history. Hays frames disease as a multi-dimensional construct, situated at the intersection of history, politics, culture and medicine, and rooted in mentalities and social ...
This work describes the nature and evolution of diseases; explains how scientists discovered the causes of infectious diseases and outlines how controls were developed; engages readers with an entertaining writing style; examines the interrelationship between plagues and culture and details the ways this shaped the traditions and institutions of ...
At the threshold of the third millennium, we are more vulnerable to mass epidemics than at any time in our history. Some infectious agents - MRSA, acinetobacter baumanii, Tuberculosis, HIV - are becoming resistant to nearly all available antibiotics. Differences in travel and social behaviour spread infections more widely; and, with changes in ...
Using vivid descriptions and a wealth of personal stories and anecdotes, this work tells of the origins, biology and destiny of such scourges of the human race as bubonic plague, malaria, typhoid, cholera, syphilis and AIDS. In this book for the general reader, Wills demonstrates the effect of these diseases on the entire evolutionary process - ...
Epidemic disease has decimated populations and caused great suffering all over the world - and continues to do so, despite the availability of advanced medical treatments. While once life-threatening diseases such as polio, smallpox and cholera have been virtually eliminated, other epidemics have taken their place, posing an equal, if not greater, ...
For as along as people have lived together in communities, infectious disease has been a part of everyday life. The fascinating story of disease-causing microbes, bacteria, and viruses crosses every area of human existence - from medicine, social history, and geography to art and natural history. This unique guide takes you on a compelling ...
Spores, Plagues and History follows the trail of anthrax from prebibical times to the present. A highly readable, authoritative perspective of the role infectious agents have played in world history.
The Disordered Body presents a fascinating look at how three epidemics of the medieval and Early Renaissance period in Western Europe shaped and altered conceptions of the human body in ways that continue today. Authors Suzanne E. Hatty and James Hatty show the ways in which concepts of the disordered body relate to constructions of disease. In so ...
This book/disk combination gives students the most complete, trusted source of college facts, a state-of-the-art college-search program, and direct links to college Web sites on the Internet. Students can get in-depth information on admission policies, academic requirements, deadlines, acceptance rates, majors, sports, activities, student services ...
These in-depth and informative books examine the nature of these diseases and the devastating effects they have had on populations throughout the world and throughout history. From the earliest infections like malaria to modern-day health crises such as AIDS, these fascinating titles explore the causes and the human toll inflicted by these ...
This chronology gives entries on the impact upon human culture of epidemic illness and death throughout history. It covers demographics, symptoms, community health, nursing, study, prevention, treatment and control of disease. Biographical information is also included.
These in-depth and informative books examine the nature of these diseases and the devastating effects they have had on populations throughout the world and thoughout history. From the earliest infections like malaria to modern-day health crises such as AIDS, these fascinating titles explore the causes and the human toll inflicted by these ...
Over the last 530 million years there have been five mass extinctions of species the last,65 million years ago,when the dinosaurs disappeared.The biodiversity of our planet may now be on the verge,Leakey and Lewin believe,of a sixth extinction,caused this time by the relentless expansion and limitless appetites of human beings. The new science of ...
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