Author: Jo N. Hay
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: history, human, impacts, pandemics, epidemics
Number of Pages: 513
Published: 2005-12-31
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1851096582
ISBN-13: 9781851096589
Great pandemics have resulted in significant death tolls and major social disruption. Other "virgin soil" epidemics have struck down large percentages of populations that had no previous contact with newly introduced microbes. Written by a specialist in the history of science and medicine, the essays in this volume discuss pandemics and epidemics affecting Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, covering diseases in ancient times to the present. Each entry combines biological and social information to form a picture of the significance of epidemics that have shaped world history.The essays cov
Authors:Patrick, Ph.D. Guilfoile,
Publisher: Chelsea House Publicatio
Keywords: epidemics, diseases, deadly, tetanus
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-02-28
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0791097110
ISBN-13: 9780791097113
Tetanus is a very serious, potentially fatal disease that typically occurs in people who have not been vaccinated. Caused by Clostridium tetani, it generally enters the body through a deep wound in the skin, such as a puncture caused by stepping on a nail. While rare in the United States and other developed countries, tetanus kills approximately 300,000 people a year worldwide. "Tetanus" describes the characteristics of the disease, which includes powerful muscle contractions and a form of paralysis called lockjaw, and details its prevention and treatment. The historical background of the dise
Author: Donald Kruel
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: epidemics, diseases, deadly, trypanosomiasis
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2007-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0791092453
ISBN-13: 9780791092453
Trypanosomiasis refers to two diseases caused by the protozoa called trypanosomes. Trypanosoma cruzi in the Americas causes Chagas disease, affecting approximately 15 million people. Trypanosoma brucei in Africa causes African sleeping sickness, also affecting millions. This book looks at the nature of these potentially fatal parasitic diseases. Microbiologist Don Kruel tells where trypanosomes exist and how they spread and cause illness. Separate chapters focus on the two major diseases they cause; other chapters look at their epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and preventive health measures
Author: Dr. Sheldon Watt
Publisher: Yale University Pre
Keywords: imperialism, power, disease, history, epidemics
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1999-11-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0300080875
ISBN-13: 9780300080872
This book is a major and wide-ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity-plague, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, cholera, and yellow fever/malaria-over the last six centuries. This book will become the standard account of the way diseases-arising through chance, through reckless environmental change engineered by man, or through a combination of each-were interpreted in Western Europe and in the colonized world.
Author: Frans Johansso
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: teach, innovation, epidemics, elephants, effect, medici
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1422102823
ISBN-13: 9781422102824
Why do so many world-changing insights come from people with little or no related experience? Charles Darwin was a geologist when he proposed the theory of evolution. And it was an astronomer who finally explained what happened to the dinosaurs. Frans Johansson?s The Medici Effect shows how breakthrough ideas most often occur when we bring concepts from one field into a new, unfamiliar territory, and offers examples how we can turn the ideas we discover into path-breaking innovations.
Authors:Linda Kollar, Brian R. Shmaefsky,
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub (T)
Keywords: epidemics, diseases, deadly, gonorrhea
Number of Pages: 114
Published: 2005-05
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0791083772
ISBN-13: 9780791083772
Authors:Laurence V. Madden, Gareth Hughes, Frank van den B
Publisher: Amer Phytopathological Society
Keywords: epidemics, disease, plant, study
Number of Pages: 421
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0890543542
ISBN-13: 9780890543542
Plant disease epidemics, caused by established and invasive pathogen species, continue to impact a world increasingly concerned with the quantity and quality of its primary food supply. The Study of Plant Disease Epidemics is a comprehensive manual that introduces readers to the essential principles and concepts of plant disease epidemiology. This useful reference and textbook provides a detailed exposition on how to describe, compare, analyze, and predict epidemics of plant disease for the ultimate purposes of developing and testing control strategies and tactics. The authors have synthesized
