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[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (39 entries) : 79 images ; digital files. |
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text rdacontent |
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still image rdacontent |
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electronic isbdmedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Opinions throughout history ; [13] |
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Opinions throughout history ; 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. The American plague -- 2. The grinning death -- 3. The children's disease -- 4. The Black Death -- 5. The strangling angel of children -- 6. The colonialist disease -- 7. The first vaccine -- 8. Fear of science -- 9. Another childhood menace -- 10. Measles strikes back -- 11. Yellow fever and the mosquito problem -- 12. The riparian plague -- 13. The red rash -- 14. Marsh fever -- 15. The infamous Typhoid Mary -- 16. A non-Spanish flu -- 17. A presidential disease -- 18. America's disease authority -- 19. The global health problem -- 20. The Asian flu -- 21. The Hong Kong flu -- 22. The DTP controversy -- 23. Human immunodeficiency virus : politics and prejudice -- 24. The autism myth -- 25. The first coronavirus -- 26. The bird flu -- 27. Return of the coronavirus -- 28. America in the age of COVID -- 29. Conclusion. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
Opinions Throughout History: Diseases & Epidemics traces the history of some of the most impactful diseases in human history, such as smallpox, measles, the bubonic plague, and HIV, and looks at how these viruses and bacterial plagues affected American politics and culture. The book will also explore the rise and spread of the anti-vaccination and science skepticism movements and their relationship to American and global public health. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Epidemics -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Communicable diseases -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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COVID-19 (Disease) -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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Epidemics -- history |
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Communicable Diseases |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Added Title |
Diseases and epidemics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 1642658448 9781642658446 xxvii, 485 pages : illustrations, maps, charts |
| ISBN |
9781787858718 electronic version |
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1642658456 |
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9781642658446 hardcover |
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1642658448 hardcover |
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9781642658453 electronic book |
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