Screen LibraryEnding epidemics : a history of escape from contagion /
"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"--
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The MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2023] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"From the discovery of microorganisms to the end of smallpox, the story of how we came to understand the infectious diseases that once killed us & how we might escape such diseases in the future"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780262047968 0262047969 |
| Index Number: | RA649 |
| CLC: | R181-09 |
| Call Number: | R181-09/C752 |
| Contents: |
Preface: The healing -- What the draper saw -- Deadly preconceptions -- Foreign bodies -- Precursors -- Ridiculous diseases, inconceivable ideas -- Buying the pox -- Slaying the speckled monster -- An angel's trumpet -- The great sanitary awakening -- Finding Pathogens -- The Semmelweis reflex -- Making sense of cholera -- The Broad Street pump -- Louis Pasteur: the rising -- The subtle foe -- The mystery of the cursed meadows -- A new vaccine -- The bible of bacteriology -- Defining the indefinable something -- (Re)discovering cholera -- A sacred delirium -- Immunity and the strangling angel -- Deadly carriers -- The beast in the mosquito -- Fit for duty -- A pathogen too far -- Midnight work -- The antibacterial revolution -- Penicillin -- Race to the vaccine -- Zero pox -- Epilogue: The plague next time. |