Pandemic : tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond / Sonia Shah.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Picador, 2017Copyright date: 2016Edition: 1st Picador editionDescription: viii, 271 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 125011800X
- 9781250118004
- 362.1 23
- RA643 .S52 2017
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Book | Jamestown City Library | Nonfiction | 362.1 Shah, Sonia | Available | 36948000055325 |
"A Sarah Crichton book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-253) and index.
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.
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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