With the recent surge of epidemic research and literature, this book distinguishes itself by being concise, precise, accurate, and effective. It is an introductory read that acts as both a summation of epidemic history as well as an invitation to dive deeper into the ongoing understanding of epidemics.
Alain Touwaide, Doody's Review
The 2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. In 2019 and the years that followed, the coronavirus pandemic infected every continent and took the lives of millions. In this updated edition, Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating how pandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics.
This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics--plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS--highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics, especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet some of them are still devastating in much of the developing world. By assessing the relationship between poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics, McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point of view on the necessity for global governments to learn from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent any future epidemic.
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A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, HIV, and COVID-19.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Plague
Chapter 2: Smallpox
Chapter 3: Malaria
Chapter 4: Cholera
Chapter 5: Tuberculosis
Chapter 6: Influenza
Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS
Chapter 8: COVID-19
References
Further reading
Index
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"With the recent surge of epidemic research and literature, this book distinguishes itself by being concise, precise, accurate, and effective. It is an introductory read that acts as both a summation of epidemic history as well as an invitation to dive deeper into the ongoing understanding of epidemics." -- Alain Touwaide, Doody's Review
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Christian W. McMillen is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on American Indian history and the history of epidemic disease. He is the author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory and Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present.
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Selling point: Describes all the major pandemics in human history, including plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19
Selling point: Deftly combines scientific explanations with historical and cultural analysis
Selling point: Deals with current discussions over epidemic disease, such as COVID-19, the Ebola epidemic, the Zika virus, and the continued concern about avian flu
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780197762004
Publisert
2024
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press Inc
Vekt
159 gr
Høyde
175 mm
Bredde
112 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
184
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