Pandemics : a very short introduction
McMillen, Christian W., 1969-2024
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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 how pandemic 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 book 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.
Main title:
Pandemics : a very short introduction / Christian W. McMillen.
Author:
McMillen, Christian W., 1969-, author
Edition:
Second edition.
Imprint:
New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]©2024
Collation:
162 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Previous edition: 2016.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780197762004 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2460326