The Resource Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond, Sonia Shah
Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond, Sonia Shah
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- Summary
- "Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-- one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-- and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback
- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands
- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes
- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China
- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis
- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera
- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance
- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine
- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm
- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics
- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world
- Isbn
- 9781250118004
- Label
- Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond
- Title
- Pandemic
- Title remainder
- tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond
- Statement of responsibility
- Sonia Shah
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-- one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-- and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shah, Sonia
- Dewey number
- 362.1
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA643
- LC item number
- .S52 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Communicable diseases
- Public health surveillance
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
- SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology
- MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases
- Label
- Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond, Sonia Shah
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-253) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China -- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis -- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera -- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance -- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine -- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm -- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics -- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world
- Control code
- 1635409
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781250118004
- Lccn
- 2015010246
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1635409
- (OCoLC)907585936
- Label
- Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to Ebola and beyond, Sonia Shah
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-253) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cholera's child : the microbes' comeback -- The jump : crossing the species barrier at wet markets, pig farms, and South Asian wetlands -- Locomotion : the global dissemination of pathogens through canals, steamships, and jet airplanes -- Filth : the rising tide of feculence, from nineteenth-century New York City to the slums of Port-au-Prince and the factory farms of south China -- Crowds : the amplification of epidemics in the global metropolis -- Corruption : private interests versus public health, or, How Aaron Burr and the Manhattan Company poisoned New York City with cholera -- Blame : cholera riots, AIDS denialism, and vaccine resistance -- The cure : the suppression of John Snow and the limits of biomedicine -- The revenge of the sea : the cholera paradigm -- The logic of pandemics : the lost history of ancient pandemics -- Tracking the next contagion : reimagining our place in a microbial world
- Control code
- 1635409
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781250118004
- Lccn
- 2015010246
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1635409
- (OCoLC)907585936
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