What disease was plague?
Subtitle: on the controversy over the microbiological identity of plague epidemics of the past
By: by Ole J. Benedictow
Series: Brill's series in the history of the environment -- v. 2; Brill's series in the history of the environment -- v. 2.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 800
ISBN-13: 9789004180024
Subjects: Epidemiology; History; Plague; Microbiology; Communicable diseases
Other titles: Brill e-books.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The issue and the problems; title: The ethics of scholarly work; title: Rats; title: The spread of bubonic plague over distances; title: Mortality in india; title: Was historical plague a viral or bacterial disease? : the question of immunity; title: Defining feature 1 : latency periods; title: Defining feature 2 : inverse correlation between mortality rate and population density; title: Defining feature 3 : buboes as a normal clinical feature in epidemics; title: Defining feature 4 : DNA of yersinia pestis from plague graves; title: Defining feature 5 : seasonality of bubonic plague; title: The beginning : the alternative theories of Shrewsbury and Morris; title: Gunnar Karlsson's alternative theory : that historical plague was pure epidemics of primary pneumonic plague; title: Twigg's alternative theory; title: The alternative theory of Scott and Duncan; title: Cohn's alternative theory.