Book ID: CBB000930422

Plagues & Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease. (2004)

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Bollet, Alfred Jay (Author)


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Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: 2nd ed. (Originally published in 1987.)
Physical Details: xii + 237 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description This edition discusses new diseases such as AIDS and the deliberate modification and weaponization of diseases such as anthrax, affecting how we perceive infectious disease.


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Review Ambrose, C. T. (2006) Review of "Plagues & Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease.". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (p. 272). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rubini, Mauro
Dellù, Elena
Gozzi, Alessandro
Zaio, Paola
Libianchi, Nunzia
Pépin, Jacques
Journals
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Social History of Medicine
Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Journal of the Turkish-German Gynecological Association
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Yale University Press
Routledge
Ohio University Press
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Columbia University Press
Concepts
Epidemics
Infectious diseases
Disease and diseases
Medicine
AIDS (disease); HIV / AIDS
Public health
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
Early modern
Places
United States
South Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Milan (Italy)
England
Valencia (Spain)
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