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“john w ward”

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  • Silent Victories

    The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America

    Edited by John W. Ward, Christian Warren ...
    Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing array of health problems. As the disease burden of the old scourges of infection, perinatal ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

    by Steven Johnson ...
    A National Bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book, and an Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year from the author of Extra Life**“By turns a medical thriller, detective story, and paean to city life, Johnson's account of the outbreak and its modern implications is a true page-turner.” —The Washington Post“Thought-provoking.” —Entertainment Weekly**It's the summer of 1854, and London is just ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Pale Rider

    The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

    by Laura Spinney ...
    The haunting story of a virus that triggered the worst pandemic of modern times.**“Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story.” —**The GuardianThe flu pandemic of 1918–1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth—from the poorest immigrants of New York City to the king of Spain, Franz Kafka, Mahatma Gandhi, and Woodrow Wilson. But despite ... Read more

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  • The Origins of AIDS

    by Jacques Pepin ...
    It is now thirty years since the discovery of AIDS but its origins continue to puzzle doctors and scientists. Inspired by his own experiences working as an infectious diseases physician in Africa, Jacques Pepin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of ... Read more

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  • Enigmas of Health and Disease

    How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries

    by Alfredo Morabia ...
    This book is the principal account of epidemiology's role in the development of effective measures to identify, prevent, and treat diseases. Throughout history, epidemiologists have challenged conventional knowledge, elucidating mysteries of causality and paving the way for remedies. From the outbreak of the bubonic plague, cholera, and cancer to the search for an effective treatment of AIDS and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • AIDS Between Science and Politics

    by Peter Piot ...
    Translated by Laurence Garey ...
    Peter Piot, founding executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), recounts his experience as a clinician, scientist, and activist fighting the disease from its earliest manifestation to today. The AIDS pandemic was not only catastrophic to the health of millions worldwide but also fractured international relations, global access to new technologies, and public ... Read more

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  • Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated

    How to treat infections without antibiotics

    by John McKenna ...
    'A long-awaited book that answers many questions.' Jan de Vries Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of antibiotics has created its own problems. The advent of antibiotic-resistant organisms – or 'superbugs' – has ... Read more

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  • An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections

    by Ron Barrett, George Armelagos (the late) ...
    This book traces the social and environmental determinants of human infectious diseases from the Neolithic to the present day. Despite recent high profile discoveries of new pathogens, the major determinants of these emerging infections are ancient and recurring. These include changing modes of subsistence, shifting populations, environmental disruptions, and social inequalities. The recent ... Read more

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  • Obesity: The Biography

    by Sander L. Gilman ...
    Series series Biographies of Disease
    According to the World Health Organization we are in the midst of a global obesity crisis. Is obesity a disease itself or a symptom of underlying physiological or psychological illnesses? Is it a sign of social excess and therefore not a disease in the medical sense at all? Is it really 'new'? Sander L. Gilman, a leading authority in the social and cultural history of the body, presents a ... Read more

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  • Knowledge in the Time of Cholera

    The Struggle over American Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

    by Owen Whooley ...
    Vomiting. Diarrhea. Dehydration. Death. Confusion. In 1832, the arrival of cholera in the United States created widespread panic throughout the country. For the rest of the century, epidemics swept through American cities and towns like wildfire, killing thousands. Physicians of all stripes offered conflicting answers to the cholera puzzle, ineffectively responding with opiates, bleeding, ... Read more

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  • The Great Manchurian Plague of 1910-1911

    The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease

    by Dr. William C. Summers, M.D. ...
    When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction of Western medicine, as well as with the interactions of three different national powers: Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. In this fascinating case history, William Summers relates how this plague killed as many as 60,000 people in less than a year, and ... Read more

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  • Risk, Chance, and Causation

    Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease

    by Michael B. Bracken ...
    The press and other media constantly report news stories about dangerous chemicals in the environment, miracle cures, the safety of therapeutic treatments, and potential cancer-causing agents. But what exactly is actually meant by increased risk”-should we worry if we are told that we are at twice the risk of developing an illness? And how do we interpret reduced risk” to properly assess the ... Read more

    $49.19 USD