| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 正題名/作者: |
Plagues & poxes/ Alfred Jay Bollet. |
| 其他題名: |
the impact of human history on epidemic disease / |
| 其他題名: |
Plagues and poxes |
| 作者: |
Bollet, Alfred J. |
| 出版者: |
New York :Demos, : c2004., |
| 面頁冊數: |
xii, 237 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| 內容註: |
Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the Blitzkatarrh |
| 內容註: |
Poliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases. |
| 標題: |
Epidemiology - History. - |
| 電子資源: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=122086An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1417590653 (electronic bk.) |