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  • Fevered Cities

    A History of Dengue Epidemics

    de Randall M. Packard ...
    Series series Epidemic Histories
    A global history of dengue fever and humanity's ongoing struggle against this persistent disease.In Fevered Cities, Randall M. Packard explores the complex and evolving history of dengue fever, the world's most widespread mosquito-borne viral disease. From its early manifestations in the eighteenth century to its current prevalence across more than one hundred countries, this book traces how ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • A History of Global Health

    Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples

    de Randall M. Packard ...
    A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Making of a Tropical Disease

    A Short History of Malaria

    de Randall M. Packard ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease
    A global history of malaria that traces the natural and social forces that have shaped its spread and made it deadly, while limiting efforts to eliminate it.Malaria sickens hundreds of millions of people—and kills nearly a half a million—each year. Despite massive efforts to eradicate the disease, it remains a major public health problem in poorer tropical regions. But malaria has not always been ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Coming Plague

    Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

    de Laurie Garrett ...
    A New York Times bestsellerThe definitive account of the infectious diseases threatening humanity by Pulitzer Prize**–winning investigative journalist Laurie Garrett**"Prodigiously researched . . . A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesAfter decades spent assuming that the conquest of infectious diseas... ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Preventing the Next Pandemic

    Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-science

    de Peter J. Hotez ...
    The last five years saw a significant return of epidemic infectious disease, culminating in COVID-19. In our new post–COVID-19 world, how do we prevent future illnesses by expanding scientific and vaccine diplomacy and cooperation, especially to combat the problems that humans have brought on ourselves?Modern diseases and viruses have been spurred anew by war and conflict as well as shifting ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Monster at Our Door

    The Global Threat of Avian Flu

    de Mike Davis ...
    The MacArthur Fellow and author of Dead Cities presents a terrifying forecast of a new global threat—and "its argument is irrefutable" ( The Independent).Hailed by The Nation as a "master of disaster prose," author and activist Mike Davis addresses the imminent catastrophe of Avian influenza. In 1918, a pandemic strain of influenza killed at least forty million people in three months. Now, leading ... Leer más

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  • Epidemics and the Modern World

    de Mitchell Hammond ...
    Epidemics and the Modern World explores the relationships between epidemics and key themes in modern history. Our institutions, colonial structures, relationships to animals, and perceptions of suffering, sexuality, race, and disability have all shaped – and been shaped by – these significant medical events.This book uses "biographies" of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Eradication

    Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?

    de Nancy Leys Stepan ...
    The dream of a world completely free of disease may seem utopian. Yet eradication, used in its modern sense to mean the reduction of the number of cases of a disease to zero by deliberate public health interventions, has been pursued repeatedly. Campaigns against yellow fever, malaria and smallpox have been among the largest, most costly programmes ever undertaken in international public health. ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Origins of AIDS

    de Jacques Pépin ...
    It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Global Health Security

    A Blueprint for the Future

    de Lawrence O. Gostin ...
    With lessons learned from COVID-19, a world-leading expert on pandemic preparedness proposes a pragmatic plan urgently needed for the future of global health security.The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how unprepared the world was for such an event, as even the most sophisticated public health systems failed to cope. We must have far more investment and preparation, along with better detection, ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Malaria

    Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States

    de Margaret Humphreys ...
    From a prominent medical historian, "a fascinating story of the spread of malaria through the USA following its introduction in the seventeenth century" ( Nature Medicine).Margaret Humphreys presents the first book-length account of the parasitic, insect-borne disease that has infected millions and influenced settlement patterns, economic development, and the quality of life at every level of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Anthropology of Infectious Disease

    de Merrill Singer ...
    This book synthesizes the flourishing field of anthropology of infectious disease in a critical, biocultural framework. Leading medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically unites the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, showing how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complex process of co-evolution. He also connects human diseases to larger ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD