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A Very Short Introduction
Christian W. McMillen: Pandemics

The ​2014 Ebola epidemic demonstrated the power of pandemics and their ability not only to destroy lives locally but also to capture the imagination and terrify the world. Christian W. McMillen provides a concise yet comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, illustrating howpandemic disease has shaped history and, at the same time, social behavior has influenced pandemic disease. Extremely interesting from a medical standpoint, the study of pandemics also provides unexpected, broader insights into culture and politics.This Very Short Introduction describes history's major pandemics – plague, tuberculosis, malaria, smallpox, cholera, influenza, and HIV/AIDS – highlighting how each disease's biological characteristics affected its pandemic development. McMillen discusses state responses to pandemics, such asquarantine, isolation, travel restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays special attention to the rise of public health and the explosion of… (tovább)

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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016
176 oldal · ISBN: 9780199340071

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