American plagues : : lessons from our battles with disease / / Stephen H. Gehlbach.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lanham : : Rowman Littlefield,, [2016] 2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Updated edition. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Gunpowder and calomel : Benjamin Rush and the malignant yellow fever
- Doctors and ministers : smallpox in Boston, 1721
- Noddle's Island experiment : Benjamin Waterhouse and vaccination
- Scourge of the middle west : autumnal fever and Daniel Drake
- Improving the numbers : Lemuel Shattuck's report
- Adirondack cure : consumption and Edward Trudeau
- The beginning and the end : epidemic poliomyelitis
- A cancer grows : Edward Murrow and the cigarette
- Searching America's heart : the Framingham study
- A cure for complacency : HIV/AIDS
- Too little, too much : healthcare related infections
- Another kind of plague : measles and misinformation.