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Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah.
"Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 125011800X
- ISBN: 9781250118004
- Physical Description: viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 21 cm
- Edition: 1st Picador edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Picador, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Sarah Crichton book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-253) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China -- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis -- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera -- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance -- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine -- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm -- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics -- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world. |
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| Subject: | Communicable diseases > Epidemiology > History. Public health surveillance. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | RA 643 .S53 2017 | 30775305550577 | General Collection | Available | - |
Pandemic : Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
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Pandemic : Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prizewinning author. Her writing on science, politics, and human rights has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and elsewhere. Her work has been featured on Radiolab, Fresh Air, and TED, where her talk "Three Reasons We Still Haven't Gotten Rid of Malaria" has been viewed by more than 900,000 people around the world. Her 2010 book, The Fever, which was called a "tour-de-fource history of malaria" (The New York Times), "rollicking" (Time), and "brilliant" (The Wall Street Journal), was long-listed for the Royal Society's Winton Prize.
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