TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gehlbach,Stephen H.
TI  - American Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease
SN  - 9781442256514
AV  - RA650.5 
U1  - 614.4/0973 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
KW  - Communicable diseases - United States - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Ch.01 GUNPOWDER AND CALOMEL -- Ch02. DOCTORS AND MINISTERS -- Ch03. NODDLE'S ISLAND EXPERIMENT -- Ch04. SCOURGE OF THE MIDDLE WEST -- Ch05. IMPROVING THE NUMBERS -- Ch06. ADIRONDACK CURE -- Ch07. THE BEGINNING AND THE END -- Ch08. A CANCER GROWS -- Ch09. SEARCHING AMERICA'S HEART -- Ch10. A CURE FOR COMPLACENCY -- Ch11. TOO LITTLE, TOO MUCH -- Ch12. ANOTHER KIND OF PLAGUE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
N2  - 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
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