Their Impacts on Human History
Hardback
Publication Date: 12/12/2005
Balancing current and historical issues, this volume of essays covers the most significant worldwide epidemics from the Black Death to AIDS. * Each of the 50 essays includes a bibliography for further reading on each subject and is cross-referenced to help the reader put the material into context * Glossary defines terms such as pandemic, germ theory, and virgin soil epidemic * Visuals such as an illustration of a 17th-century costume worn to ward off the plague and a photo of a panicked father carrying a polio-stricken daughter dramatize the effect of epidemics * Maps illustrate the spread of major pandemics, such as influenza in 1918 * Sidebars feature source documents, such as an eyewitness account of the death of composer Frederic Chopin or clergyman Cotton Mather's description of smallpox inoculation in 1721
- ISBN:
- 9781851096589
- 9781851096589
- Category:
- History of medicine
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 12-12-2005
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 528
- Dimensions (mm):
- 254x178x34mm
- Weight:
- 1.08kg
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