Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction - 2nd Edition

A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, HIV, and COVID-19.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: Plague


• Chapter 2: Smallpox


• Chapter 3: Malaria


• Chapter 4: Cholera


• Chapter 5: Tuberculosis


• Chapter 6: Influenza


• Chapter 7: HIV/AIDS


• Chapter 8: COVID-19


• References


• Further reading


• Index

About the author

Christian W. McMillen is Professor of History at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses on American Indian history and the history of epidemic disease. He is the author of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory and Discovering Tuberculosis: A Global History, 1900 to the Present.

Summary

A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, HIV, and COVID-19.

Product details

• Authors: Christian W. Mcmillen, Christian W. (Professor of History Mcmillen, McMillen Christian W.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9780197762004
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776200-4
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 175 mm x 10 mm
• Series: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, History of Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine