American plagues
Subtitle: lessons from our battles with disease
By: Stephen H. Gehlbach
Edition: Updated edition.
Publisher: Rowman Littlefield
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781442256507
Subjects: Epidemics; History; Communicable diseases
Description: 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.
Notes: Previous edition: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever; title: Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721; title: Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination; title: Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake; title: Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report; title: Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau; title: The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis; title: A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette; title: Searching America's heart : the Framingham study; title: A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS; title: Too little, too much : healthcare related infections; title: Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.