American plagues : lessons from our battles with disease / Stephen H. Gehlbach.
By: Gehlbach, Stephen H [author.].
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman Littlefield, [2016]Edition: Updated edition.Description: ix, 301 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781442256507.Subject(s): Epidemics -- United States -- History | Communicable diseases -- United States -- History | Epidemics -- History | Communicable Disease Control -- history | Epidemiology -- history | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RA650.5 .G44 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007050 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever -- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721 -- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination -- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake -- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report -- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau -- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis -- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette -- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study -- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS -- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections -- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.