The power of plagues. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The power of plagues. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- The power of plagues
- Further Information:
- Note: Irwin W. Sherman.
- Authors:
- Sherman, Irwin W
- Contents:
- The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A 21st century plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues: immunization -- The plague protectors: antisepsis to antibiotics -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Emerging and re-emerging plagues.
- Edition:
- Second edition
- Publisher Details:
- Washington, DC : ASM Press
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (viii, 494 pages), illustrations, maps
- Subjects:
- 616.9
Communicable diseases -- History
Epidemics -- History
Diseases and history
Communicable Diseases -- history
Communicable Disease Control -- history
Disease Outbreaks -- history
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology
SCIENCE -- History
Communicable diseases
Diseases and history
Epidemics
Electronic books
History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781683673088
1683673085
9781683670018
1683670019
9781683670865
1683670868 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781683670001
1683670000 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.489088
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