Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World
ISBN: 9781555814663 | 1555814662
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: AMERICAN SOCIETY MICROBIOLOGY
Pub. Date: 9/1/2007
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Diseases have significantly shaped the course of the world's history. From the fourteenth-century plague to HIV/AIDS today, diseases have fundamentally altered the shape of society, politics, and culture. In a sweeping, thoughtful account, Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World considers the history of twelve important diseases: their impact, their consequences, their costs, and the lessons, learned. Examining porphyria, hemophilia, blight, tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever, syphilis, and AIDS, th... MORE
| Preface | p. vii |
| The Legacy of Disease: Porphyria and Hemophilia | p. 1 |
| The Irish Potato Blight | p. 19 |
| Cholera | p. 33 |
| Smallpox: the Speckled Monster | p. 50 |
| Bubonic Plague | p. 68 |
| Syphilis: the Great Pox | p. 83 |
| Tuberculosis: the People's Plague | p. 104 |
| Malaria | p. 130 |
| Yellow Fever: the Saffron Scourge | p. 143 |
Irwin W. Sherman, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Riverside
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