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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: power of plagues
  name:
    name part: Sherman, Irwin W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2017
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 494 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps.)
  abstract: The Power of Plagues presents a rogues' gallery of epidemic-causing microorganisms placed in the context of world history. Author Irwin W. Sherman introduces the microbes that caused these epidemics and the people who sought (and still seek) to understand how diseases and epidemics are managed. What makes this book especially fascinating are the many threads that Sherman weaves together as he explains how plagues past and present have shaped the outcome of wars and altered the course of medicine, religion, education, feudalism, and science. Cholera gave birth to the field of epidemiology. The bubonic plague epidemic that began in 1346 led to the formation of universities in cities far from the major centers of learning (and hot spots of the Black Death) at that time. And the Anopheles mosquito and malaria aided General George Washington during the American Revolution. Sadly, when microbes have inflicted death and suffering, people have sometimes responded by invoking discrimination, scapegoating, and quarantine, often unfairly, against races or classes of pepople presumed to be the cause of the epidemic. Pathogens are not the only stars of this book. Many scientists and physicians who toiled to understand, treat, and prevent these plagues are also featured. Sherman tells engaging tales of the development of vaccines, anesthesia, antiseptics, and antibiotics. This arsenal has dramatically reduced the suffering and death caused by infectious diseases, but these plague protectors are imperfect, due to their side effects or attenuation and because microbes almost invariably develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs. The Power of Plagues provides a sobering reminder that plagues are not a thing of the past. Along with the persistence of tuberculosis, malaria, river blindness, and AIDS, emerging and remerging epidemics continue to confound global and national public health efforts. West Nile virus, Lyme disease, and Ebola and Zika viruses are just some of the newest rogue…
  table of contents: The nature of plagues -- Plagues, the price of being sedentary -- Six plagues of antiquity -- An ancient plague, the black death -- A 21st century plague, AIDS -- Typhus, a fever plague -- Malaria, another fever plague -- King cholera -- Smallpox, the spotted plague -- Preventing plagues: immunization -- The plague protectors: antisepsis to antibiotics -- The great pox syphilis -- The people's plague: tuberculosis -- Leprosy, the striking hand of God -- Six plagues of Africa -- Emerging and re-emerging plagues.
  note: Irwin W. Sherman, University of California at San Diego.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Communicable diseases
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Epidemics
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Diseases and history
  subject:
    topic: Communicable Diseases
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Disease Outbreaks
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Communicable Disease Control
    topic: history
  classification: RA643 .S55 2017
  classification: 616.9
  classification: 2017 I-806
  classification: WC 11.1
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    title info:
      title: Power of plagues
    name:
      name part: Sherman, Irwin W.
    origin info:
      publisher: Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2017]
      edition: 2nd edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2017006703
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    identifier: (DLC) 2017005669
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  record info:
    record content source: NhCcYBP
    record creation date: 230502
    record change date: 20260214233753.2
    record identifier: in00004688796
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng