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Patient zero

a curious history of the world's worst diseases
Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Kang, Lydia; Pedersen, Nate
Verfasser*innenangabe: Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
Jahr: 2021
Verlag: New York, Workman Publishing
Mediengruppe: Buch
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"From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks-how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the authors' lively and accessible style, chapters include page-turning medical stories about a particular disease or virus-smallpox, Bubonic plague, polio, HIV-that combine "Patient Zero" narratives, or the human stories behind outbreaks, with historical examinations of missteps, milestones, scientific theories, and more. Learn the tragic stories of Patient Zeros throughout history, such as Mabalo Lokela, who contracted Ebola while on vacation in 1976, and the Lewis Baby on London's Broad Street, the first to catch cholera in an 1854 outbreak that led to a major medical breakthrough. Interspersed are origin stories of a different sort-how a rye fungus in 1951 turned a small village in France into a phantasmagoric scene reminiscent of Burning Man. Plus the uneasy history of human autopsy, how the HIV virus has been with us for at least a century, and more"--
 
Table of Contents
Introduction v
Infection
1 (128)
Patient Zero: Ergotism
2 (10)
Zoonoses: Making the Leap
12 (13)
Patient Zero: Ebola
25 (13)
Germ Theory: From Miasma to Microscopes
38 (12)
Patient Zero: The Plague
50 (13)
Autopsy: From Humoral Theory to Grave Robbing
63 (13)
Patient Zero: Mad Cow Disease
76 (11)
Anatomy of an Outbreak: Calling in the Public Health Cavalry
87 (13)
Patient Zero: Yellow Fever
100 (11)
COVID-19: The Origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the Polltlclzatlon of Plagues
111 (18)
Spread
129 (94)
Patient Zero: HIV
130 (16)
Indigenous Peoples & the Columbian Exchange: The "Exchange" Was Not Equal
146 (9)
Patient Zero: Typhus
155 (12)
Patient Zero: Measles
167 (11)
Patient Zero: Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
178 (11)
Patient Zero: Syphilis
189 (12)
Quackery: From Mercury and Bloodletting to Hydroxychloroquine
201 (11)
Patient Zero: Typhoid Fever
212 (11)
Containment
223 (135)
Patient Zero: 1918 Influenza
224 (15)
Vaccines: From Variolation to Messenger RNA
239 (12)
Patient Zero: Polio
251 (12)
Patient Zero: Hepatitis C
263 (9)
The Infection-Disease Link: From Viruses. Bacteria, and Parasites to Cancer
272 (10)
Patient Zero: Cholera
282 (12)
Anthrax & Biological Warfare: The Weaponization of Disease
294 (13)
Patient Zero: Rabies
307 (10)
Tuberculosis: The "All-Consuming" Disease
317 (12)
Patient Anti-ZERO: The Last Smallpox Case
329 (11)
Medical Advances: From Pandemics to Progress
340 (18)
Sources 358 (19)
Acknowledgments 377 (1)
Index 378 (10)
Photo Credits 388 (2)
About the Authors 390
 

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Verfasser*in: Suche nach Verfasser*in Kang, Lydia; Pedersen, Nate
Verfasser*innenangabe: Lydia Kang & Nate Pedersen
Jahr: 2021
Verlag: New York, Workman Publishing
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Interessenkreis: Suche nach diesem Interessenskreis Englisch [Sprache]
ISBN: 978-1-5235-1329-1
2. ISBN: 1-5235-1329-2
Beschreibung: 390 Seiten
Schlagwörter: Geschichte, Infektionskrankheit, Ansteckende Krankheit, Infektionskrankheiten, Kontagiöse Krankheit, Landesgeschichte, Ortsgeschichte, Regionalgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte
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Sprache: Englisch
Fußnote: Text englisch
Mediengruppe: Buch