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050 4$aRA643$b.S52 2017
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100 1 $aShah, Sonia,$eauthor.
245 10$aPandemic :$btracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond /$cSonia Shah.
250 $a1st Picador edition.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bPicador,$c2017.
300 $aviii, 271 p., 8 unnumbered p. :$billustrations, maps ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aCholera'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.
520 $aInterweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera--one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens--and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aCommunicable diseases$xEpidemiology$xHistory.
650 0$aPublic health surveillance.