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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

The Second Coming of the White Plague

The Second Coming of the White Plague



Author: Leonid Heifets
Edition: 1
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1621478750



The Second Coming of the White Plague


The Second Coming of the White Plague is a provocative review of the public health and political problems related to tuberculosis, which causes more deaths in the world than AIDS, malaria, and leprosy combined. Medical books The Second Coming of the White Plague. It rings an alarm that current worldwide TB control measures are insufficient to prevent further spread of epidemics of drug-resistant tuberculosis Medical books .

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It rings an alarm that current worldwide TB control measures are insufficient to prevent further spread of epidemics of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This book is an effort to educate the public on TB and, in particular, on the likely possibility that new and alarming drug resistant forms of the disease will lead to epidemics of incurable tuberculosis.

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Monday, July 23, 2012

The Plague of the Spanish Lady

The Plague of the Spanish Lady



Author: Richard Collier
Edition:
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0749002468



The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The Influenza Panademic of 1918-1919


During the three months from October 1918 to January 1919 more than 20 million people died of Spanish flu throughout the world. Medical books The Plague of the Spanish Lady. Medical books The Plague of the Spanish Lady: the Influenza Panademic of 1918-1919.

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Author: Collier, Richard. GOOD. First edition & printing. Tanned. Boards slightly bumped. Pencil price inside front cover. Unclipped dustjacket with slight wear to extremities. Hardback with paper jacket. 1974. Main language English. Ships from UK.

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The author of this history sets out to present the disease in terms of human experience, based on the memories of more than 1700 survivors.

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Friday, July 13, 2012

Cultures of Plague Epub

Cultures of Plague



Author: Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
Edition:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0199574022



Cultures of Plague: Medical Thought at the End of the Renaissance


Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Medical books Cultures of Plague. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop.

This study of plague imprints, from academic medical treatises to plague poetry, highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty Medical books .

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Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop.

This study of plague imprints, from academic medical treatises to plague poetry, highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus.

In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract.

Relying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion's complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Plague and Fire Epub

Plague and Fire



Author: James C. Mohr
Edition:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0195311825



Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's Chinatown


A little over a century ago, bubonic plague--the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe--arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U. Medical books Plague and Fire. . territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax--a vast conflagration that engulfed Honolulu's Chinatown.
Mohr tells this gripping tale largely through the eyes of the people caught up in the disaster, from members of the white elite to Chinese doctors, Japanese businessmen, and Hawaiian reporters Medical books .

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. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation and its fiery climax--a vast conflagration that engulfed Honolulu's Chinatown.
Mohr tells this gripping tale largely through the eyes of the people caught up in the disaster, from members of the white elite to Chinese doctors, Japanese businessmen, and Hawaiian reporters. At the heart of the narrative are three American physicians--the Honolulu Board of Health--who became virtual dictators when the government granted them absolute control over the armed forces and the treasury. The doctors soon quarantined Chinatown, where the plague was killing one or two people a day and clearly spreading. They resisted intense pressure from the white community to burn down all of Chinatown at once and instead ordered a careful, controlled burning of buildings where plague victims had died. But a freak wind whipped one of those small fires into a roaring inferno that destroyed everything in its path, consuming roughly thirty-eight acres of densely packed wooden structures in a single afternoon. Some 5000 people lost their homes and all their possessions and were marched in shock to detention camps, where they were confined under armed guard for weeks.
Next to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Chinatown fire is the worst civic disaster in Hawaiian history. A dramatic account of people struggling in the face of mounting catastrophe, Plague and Fire is a stimulating and thought-provoking read.

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Plague Epub

Plague



Author: Paul Slack
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199589542



Plague: A Very Short Introduction


This Very Short Introduction explores the historical impact of plague over the centuries, the ways in which it has been interpreted, and the powerful images it has left behind in art and literature. Medical books Plague. Medical books Eleventh Plague, The ? - Scholastic. Pre-order now - - this book will be available September, 2011.In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving. In the aftermath of a war, America s landscape has been ravaged and two thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade for food and other items essential for survival. But when Stephen s grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen finds his way to Settler s Landing, a community that seems too good to be true, where there are real houses, barbecues, school, and even baseball games. Then Stephen meets strong, defiant, mischievous Jenny, who refuses to accept things as they are. And when they play a prank that goes horribly wrong, chaos erupts, and they find themselves in the midst of a battle that will change Settler s Landing forever.

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Pre-order now - - this book will be available September, 2011.In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving. In the aftermath of a war, America s landscape has been ravaged and two thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn and his family were among the few that survived and became salvagers, roaming the country in search of material to trade for food and other items essential for survival. But when Stephen s grandfather dies and his father falls into a coma after an accident, Stephen finds his w

It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building in Plague, Michael Grant's fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series.A highly contagious, fatal illness is spreading at an alarming rate, while sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape--or even survive--life in the FAYZ. With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will they make when it comes t

This Passover seder enrichment toy is a great way for children to learn about the ten plagues. Inside the burlap drawsting bag are ten colorful toys, each one representing a plague, Moses and Pharoah puppets, and a booklet explaining the story of the plagues. For children 3 years and up

Image:67475 Exodus 10:1-20 The Seven Plagues of Egypt: the plague of locusts, from the 'Nuremberg Bible (Biblia Sacra Germanaica)' (coloured woodcut). German School, (15th century). Private Collection, The Stapleton Collection. Art, Fine Art.



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Paul Slack assesses its causes, which have often been disputed and are now being illuminated by microbiologists and archaeologists, and he looks at possible reasons for its periodic disappearance from whole continents. He shows what plague meant for those who suffered from it, and how governments began to fight against it and in doing so invented modern notions of public health. His focus throughout the book is on how people coped with death and disease in epidemic crises.

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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

In the Wake of the Plague

In the Wake of the Plague



Author: Norman F. Cantor
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0060014342



In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made


The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. Medical books In the Wake of the Plague. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in a haze of myths Medical books In the Wake of the Plague. In the Wake of the Plague

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It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the high fever, and the awful end by respiratory failure -- are more or less accurate. But what the Plague really was and how it made history remain shrouded in a haze of myths.

Now, Norman Cantor, the premier historian of the Middle Ages, draws together the most recent scientific discoveries and groundbreaking historical research to pierce the mist and tell the story of the Black Death as a gripping, intimate narrative.

One-third of Western Europe's population died between 1348 and 1350, victims of the Black Death. Noted medievalist Norman Cantor tells the story of the pandemic and its widespread effects in In the Wake of the Plague.

After giving an overview, Cantor describes various theories about the medical crisis, from contemporary fears of a Jewish conspiracy to poison the water (and the resulting atrocities against European Jews) to a growing belief among modern historians that both bubonic plague and anthrax caused the spiraling death rates. Cantor also details ways in which the Black Death changed history, at both the personal level (family lines dying out) and the political (the Plantagenet kings may well have been able to hold onto France had their resources not been so diminished).

Cantor veers from topic to topic, from dynastic worries to the Dance of Death, and from peasants' rights to Perpendicular Gothic. This makes for amusing reading, though those seeking an orderly narrative may be frustrated. He also seems overly concerned with rumors of homosexual behavior, and his attempt to link the savage method of Edward II's murder to a cooling in global weather is a bit farfetched.

Cantor wears his considerable scholarship lightly, but includes a very useful critical biography for further reading. While not an entry-level text on the Black Death, In the Wake of the Plague will interest readers looking for a broader interpretation of its consequences. --Sunny Delaney

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Monday, August 29, 2011

The American Plague

The American Plague



Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Edition: 1
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0425212025



The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History


In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus. Medical books The American Plague.

Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined Medical books .

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Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce, quarantined cities, moved the U.S. capital, and altered the outcome of wars. During a single summer in Memphis alone, it cost more lives than the Chicago fire, the San Francisco earthquake, and the Johnstown flood combined.

In 1900, the U.S. sent three doctors to Cuba to discover how yellow fever was spread. There, they launched one of history's most controversial human studies. Compelling and terrifying, The American Plague depicts the story of yellow fever and its reign in this country-and in Africa, where even today it strikes thousands every year. With "arresting tales of heroism,"** it is a story as much about the nature of human beings as it is about the nature of disease.

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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Twenty-First Century Plague

Twenty-First Century Plague



Author: Thomas Abraham
Edition: 1
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0801886325



Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of SARS


In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. Medical books Twenty-First Century Plague. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent.

Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the SARS virus demonstrated human society's vulnerability to disease. New infectious diseases like SARS have been emerging at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of them much more lethal and contagious than SARS Medical books Twenty-first Century Plague: The Story Of Sars By Thomas Abraham Paperback B. Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of Sars by Thomas Abraham Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent. Before it was r

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Twenty-First Century Plague: The Story of Sars by Thomas Abraham Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In the autumn of 2002 in southern China, a previously unknown virus jumped the species barrier from animal to man and sparked the first global epidemic of the new century. The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent. Before it was r

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This book provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the global battle against SARS was fought and the incredible research efforts that finally led to identification of the virus. Drawing on unprecedented access to scientists, doctors, and recovered patients, Thomas Abraham traces the emergence of SARS, examines the politics and economics of disease, and recounts the stresses and heartbreaks suffered by brave researchers who fought the clock to solve the SARS puzzle -- even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease. The paperback edition features a new introduction by the aut

This book provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the global battle against SARS was fought and the incredible research efforts that finally led to identification of the virus. Drawing on unprecedented access to scientists, doctors, and recovered patients, Thomas Abraham traces the emergence of SARS, examines the politics and economics of disease, and recounts the stresses and heartbreaks suffered by brave researchers who fought the clock to solve the SARS puzzle -- even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease. The paperback edition features a new introduction by the aut



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The disease sped along the air routes of a globalized world, spreading within months to thirty-one countries on every continent.

Before it was reined in by a remarkable international scientific effort, the SARS virus demonstrated human society's vulnerability to disease. New infectious diseases like SARS have been emerging at an alarming rate over the past few decades. There is every indication the world will continue to face new viral diseases, some of them much more lethal and contagious than SARS.

This book traces the emergence of SARS, in the process examining the global politics and economics of disease. It provides the first behind-the-scenes account of how the global battle against SARS was fought and the incredible research efforts that finally led to identification of the virus.

Drawing on unprecedented access to scientists, doctors, and recovered patients, Thomas Abraham recounts the pressures and heartbreaks suffered by brave researchers who battled the clock to solve the SARS puzzle—even as colleagues and friends succumbed to the disease.

"The caller at the other end of the phone was from the Manila office of the World Health Organization (WHO), and his message was alarming. Flying over the Atlantic Ocean on a Singapore Airlines flight was a critically ill man who had to be hospitalized in an isolation ward as soon as possible... There were over 300 passengers on the jet, which was bound for Singapore via Frankfurt, and unless the man was taken off the plane, they were all in danger."

"On March 15, while David Heymann and his team were toiling away on their global travel alert in Geneva, a 72-year-old man boarded Air China flight 112 from Hong Kong to Beijing... Not only was he sick, he also happened to be a super-spreader of the disease. From his seat, 14E, he infected 21 other passengers and crew members."



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Sunday, July 3, 2011

The Doctors' Plague

The Doctors' Plague



Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 039332625X



The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)


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Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea Medical books .

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Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately—childbed fever in Vienna all but disappeared—they brought down upon Semmelweis the wrath of the establishment, and led to his tragic end.

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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Cultures of Plague

Cultures of Plague



Author: Samuel K. Cohn Jr.
Edition: 1
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0199605092



Cultures of Plague: Medical Thinking at the end of the Renaissance


Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Medical books Cultures of Plague. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop.

This study of plague imprints, from academic medical treatises to plague poetry, highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty Medical books Cultures Of Plague - Samuel K. John Jr. (paperback). Powered by Frooition Pro Click here to view full size. Full Size Image Click to close full size. Cultures of Plague - Book NEW Author(s): Samuel K. John Jr. Format: Paperback # Pages: 342 ISBN-13: 9780199605095 Published: 06/01/2011 Language: English Weight: 1.15 pounds Brand new book. About Us Payment Shipping Customer Service FAQs Welcome to MovieMars All items are Brand New. We offer unbeatable prices, quick shipping times and a wide selection second to none. Purchases come with a 30-day Sat

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Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop.

This study of plague imprints, from academic medical treatises to plague poetry, highlights the most feared and devastating epidemic of the sixteenth-century, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. From erudite definitions, remote causes, cures and recipes, physicians now directed their plague writings to the prince and discovered their most 'valiant remedies' in public health: strict segregation of the healthy and ill, cleaning streets and latrines, addressing the long-term causes of plague-poverty. Those outside the medical profession joined the chorus.

In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations of Galenic and Renaissance medicine, even the role of God. Assaults on medieval and Renaissance medicine did not need to await the Protestant-Paracelsian alliance of seventeenth-century in northern Europe. Instead, creative forces planted by the pandemic of 1575-8 sowed seeds of doubt and unveiled new concerns and ideas within that supposedly most conservative form of medical writing, the plague tract.

Relying on health board statistics and dramatized with eyewitness descriptions of bizarre happenings, human misery, and suffering, these writers created the structure for plague classics of the eighteenth century, and by tracking the contagion's complex and crooked paths, they anticipated trends of nineteenth-century epidemiology.

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