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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hardt, Mark D., 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]
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Online Access: 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.