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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 | - |
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