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020 9780199340071
020 9780199340088 (ebook epdf)
020 9780199340095 (ebook epub)
020 9780190625214 (online resource)
050 00 RA649 |bM373 2016
100 1 McMillen, Christian W.,|d1969
245 10 Pandemics :|ba very short introduction /|cChristian W.
McMillen.
260 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c2016
300 153 p: |bills, map ;|c18 cm.
490 Very short introductions
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 "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 Very Short Introduction 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. McMillen discusses state responses to
pandemics, such as quarantine, isolation, travel
restrictions, and other forms of social control, and pays
special attention to the rise of public health and the
explosion of medical research in the wake of pandemics,
especially as the germ theory of disease emerged in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today,
medicine is able to control all of these diseases, yet
some of them are still devastating in much of the
developing world. By assessing the relationship between
poverty and disease and the geography of epidemics,
McMillen offers an outspoken and thought-provoking point
of view on the necessity for global governments to learn
from past experiences and proactively cooperate to prevent
any future epidemic''
520 "The book provides a concise yet comprehensive account of
pandemics throughout human history, including plague,
tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV. He
illustrates the ways in which pandemic disease has shaped
history and how human history has shaped pandemic disease.
Pandemics are both interesting from a medical standpoint
and provide insight into the culture and politics of their
time"
650 0 Epidemics |xHistory