History of infectious disease pandemics in urban societies /
This book examines the evolution of urban social patterns and infectious diseases. Tracing the historical record, it explores the human struggle to contain infectious disease and the adaption of microbes to these measures.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
[2016]
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Full text (MFA users only) |
ISBN: | 9780739180273 0739180274 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The past: human populations prior to sedentary life styles
- Origins of the urban death penalty: civilized diseases
- The first rural-urban turnaround
- Infectious diseases and medical traditions in the levant
- Emergence of the enlightenment
- Advancement of science and medicine
- Inoculation and infectious disease
- A review of the urban death penalty
- Postlogue.