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Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history
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Epidemics and pandemics : their impacts on human history

著者: J N Hays
出版商: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, ©2005.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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Hays (history, Loyola U. Chicago) describes, in a style accessible to high school students and up, the history of 50 epidemics in world history, from an unspecified disease that swept through Athens in 430-427 BC to a number of epidemics still plaguing the world today. Each chapter is organized into sections describing "when and where," historical significance, background, how it was understood at the time,  再读一些...
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ISBN: 1851096582 9781851096589 1851096639 9781851096633
OCLC号码: 61463705
描述: xii, 513 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
内容: Preface --
Epidemic in Athens, 430-427 B.C.E. --
Malaria in ancient Rome --
Plague of the Antonines --
First plague pandemic, 541-747 --
Smallpox epidemic in Japan, 735-737 --
Leprosy in medieval Europe --
Second plague pandemic, 1346-1844 --
"French disease" in sixteenth-century Europe --
Epidemics in sixteenth-century America --
Epidemics and the thirty years' war, 1618-1648 --
Plague in Italian cities, 1630s --
Epidemics in China, 1640-1644 --
Plague in London, 1665 --
Smallpox in Iceland, 1707-1709 --
Plague in Marseilles, 1720-1722 --
Smallpox in Boston, 1721 --
Smallpox in eighteenth-century Europe --
Plague in Moscow, 1771 --
Influenza pandemic, 1781-1782 --
Yellow fever in Hispaniola, 1793-1804 --
Yellow fever in Philadelphia, 1793 --
First cholera pandemic, 1817-1824 --
Consumption in the nineteenth century --
Second cholera pandemic, 1827-1835 --
Third cholera pandemic, 1839-1856 --
"Fevers" and the great famine in Ireland, 1846-1850 --
Typhoid fever in cities, 1850-1920 --
Yellow fever in New Orleans, 1853 --
Fourth cholera pandemic, 1863-1875 --
Carrion's disease in Peru, 1870-1871 --
Smallpox in Europe, 1870-1875 --
Measles in Fiji, 1875 --
Fifth cholera pandemic, 1881-1896 --
Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890 --
Cholera epidemic in Hamburg, 1892 --
Third plague pandemic, 1894-? --
Sixth cholera pandemic, 1899-1923 --
Sleeping sickness in east central Africa, 1900-1905 --
Typhoid Mary's "epidemics" --
Cholera epidemic in Naples, 1910-1911 --
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1916 --
Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 --
Lung cancer in the United States, mid-twentieth century --
Poliomyelitis in the United States, 1945-1955 --
Seventh cholera pandemic, 1961-present --
Aids in the United States, 1980s --
Contemporary aids pandemic --
The mad cow crisis and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, 1985-present --
Contemporary malaria --
Contemporary tuberculosis --
Epilogue --
Glossary.
责任: J.N. Hays.
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Hays (history, Loyola U. Chicago) describes, in a style accessible to high school students and up, the history of 50 epidemics in world history, from an unspecified disease that swept through Athens in 430-427 BC to a number of epidemics still plaguing the world today. Each chapter is organized into sections describing "when and where," historical significance, background, how it was understood at the time, responses, and unresolved historical issues. Each chapter also includes references and suggested additional readings. Also includes information on Aedes Aegypti, American Indians, antibiotics, Asia, asymptomatic carriers, bleeding, blood, burial considerations, children, China, contagion, diet, dysentery, economic circumstances, environmental considerations, fleas, flies, germ theory, will of gods, Waldemar Haffkine, humors, immunity, infants, inoculations, Islam, Edward Jenner, Robert Koch, laws, miasmas, microorganisms, migration, military affairs, morality, morbidity, mortality, mosquitoes, New York, pilgrimages, political impact, population levels, poverty, public health policies, quarantines, race, rehydration, religion, rodents, sanitation, slavery, social conditions, syphilis, trade considerations, transportation, rural areas, urban areas, vaccinations, venereal diseases, Vibrio cholerae, virgin soil infection, water contamination, women, World Health Organization, World War I, Yersinia pestis, etc.

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