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" American plagues : "
Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH.
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BL
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849184
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Gehlbach, Stephen H.
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American plagues : : lessons from our battles with disease /\ Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH.
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Updated edition.
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Lanham :: Rowman & Littlefield,, [2016]
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ix, 301 pages :: illustrations, portraits ;; 24 cm
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0810894963
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: 1442256508
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: 9781442256507
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1442256516
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9781442256514
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever -- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 -- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination -- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake -- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report -- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau -- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis -- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette -- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study -- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS -- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections -- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.
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Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio ... now largely just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons. As we struggle to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and Ebola infection, Gehlbach shows how encounters with epidemics in the past will aid our present understanding of health and disease.
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Communicable diseases-- United States-- History.
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Epidemics-- United States-- History.
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Communicable diseases.
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Epidemics.
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Disease Outbreaks-- history.
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Communicable Disease Control-- history.
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Epidemiology-- history.
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United States.
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United States.
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614.4/0973
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RA650.5.G445 2016
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WA 11 AA1
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