Book ID: CBB000302122

Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (2003)

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Koplow, David A. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: ix + 265 pp., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Focuses on the debates over the question of whether the two remaining stockpiles of the smallpox virus should be destroyed.


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Review Cole, Leonard A. (2004) Review of "Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul
Löwy, Illana
Berridge, Virginia
Mendelsohn, J. Andrew
Brown, JoAnne
Creager, Angela N. H.
Journals
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of World History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Medical History
Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Publishers
Routledge
W. W. Norton & Co.
McFarland
RiMa/ Maringá (Brazil): Eduem
Oxford University Press
Duke University Press
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Medicine and politics
Epidemiology
Medicine and society
Medicine
People
Winthrop, John
Mao, Zedong
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Prehistory
Places
United States
Brazil
India
Japan
New England (U.S.)
North America
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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