Book ID: CBB312042746

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1994)

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Laurie Garrett (Author)


Farrar, Straus and Giroux


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: 769
Language: English

After decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious disease was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged by AIDS, drug-resistant tuberculosis, cholera that defies chlorine water treatment, and exotic viruses that can kill in a matter of hours. Relying on extensive interviews with leading experts in virology, molecular biology, disease ecology, and medicine, as well as field research in sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe, Central America, and the United States, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague takes readers from the savannas of eastern Bolivia to the rain forests of the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo on a harrowing, fifty year journey through the history of our battles with microbes. This book is a work of investigative reportage like no other and a wake-up call to a world that has become complacent in the face of infectious disease—one that offers a sobering and prescient warning about the dangers of ignoring the coming plague.

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Article Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis (2020) Someday a Big Plague Will Come: Laurie Garrett’s The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 814-817). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Adria L. Imada
M. Kemal Temel
Parhi, Katariina
Martín Espinosa, Noelia María
Bollyky, Thomas J.
Ayarzagüena Sanz, Mariano
Concepts
Public health
Infectious diseases
Prevention and control of disease
Medicine and society
Epidemiology
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
United States
Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Istanbul (Turkey)
Hawaii (U.S.)
Valencia (Spain)
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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