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
Pienaar, Kinar
Cinzia Recca
Suzuki, Akihito
Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Smallman-Raynor, Matthew
Silva, Cristobal Selenite
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Medicine and politics
Epidemiology
Medicine
Medicine and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Prehistory
Places
United States
United Kingdom
Myanmar (Burma)
Sicily
East Asia
New England (U.S.)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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