American Plagues - Lessons From Our Battles With Disease

American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past-smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio-offering lessons that help us better understand health problems of today like HIV/AIDS, heart disease and Ebola. Readers learn about these past plagues, those who helped conquer them, and how they shed light on health information of today.

List of contents

Preface
1: Gunpowder and Calomel: Benjamin Rush and the Malignant Yellow Fever
2: Doctors and Ministers: Smallpox in Boston, 1721
3: Noddle's Island Experiment: Benjamin Waterhouse and Vaccination
4: Scourge of the Middle West: Autumnal Fever and Daniel Drake
5: Improving the Numbers: Lemuel Shattuck's Report
6: Adirondack Cure: Consumption and Edward Trudeau
7: The Beginning and the End: Epidemic Poliomyelitis
8: A Cancer Grows: Edward Murrow and the Cigarette
9: Searching America's Heart: the Framingham Study
10: A Cure for Complacency: HIV/AIDS
11: Too Little, Too Much: Healthcare Related Infections
12: Another Kind of Plague: Measles and Misinformation

About the author

By Stephen H. Gehlbach

Summary

American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past-smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio-offering lessons that help us better understand health problems of today like HIV/AIDS, heart disease and Ebola. Readers learn about these past plagues, those who helped conquer them, and how they shed light on health information of today.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen H Gehlbach, Stephen H. Gehlbach, Gehlbach Stephen H.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780810894969
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9496-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Diseases, MEDICAL / History, History of Medicine, Diseases & disorders, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Diseases and disorders, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / General