The Book of the Dead (El libro de los difuntos) is a Nahuatl-language death registry maintained by the Indigenous people of Huexotzinco, Mexico, between 1619 and 1640. On its fragile vellum pages are the names of over twenty-five hundred Indigenous...Daugiau...
This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.Rather than conflating the planetary with anthropogenic climate change, planetary geo-e...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953120)
Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a shock to the system of American medicineor it should have been. In the decades that followed the most...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953113)
Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a shock to the system of American medicineor it should have been. In the decades that followed the most...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jul-2025, Other book format, Leidėjas: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953137)
Explaining the deadly stasis of American medicine in the nineteenth century The 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia was a shock to the system of American medicineor it should have been. In the decades that followed the most inf...Daugiau...
Great American Diseases: Their Effects on the Course of North American History, Second Edition covers significant disease epidemics that have shaped North American history, from the arrival of Smallpox with the first Europeans to the COVID-19...Daugiau...
This book examines the recent trend in global cinema to feature infectious disease.As the global crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic materialised the anxieties and discourses of world risk that had long been portrayed in popular media, the book...Daugiau...
Singapore has faced many pandemics over the centuries, from smallpox and cholera to influenza and novel coronaviruses. By examining how different governments responded, this book considers what we can learn from their experiences. S...Daugiau...
From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as wel...Daugiau...
An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, examining the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 11-Mar-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781982197834)
In the vein of Medical Apartheid, The Color of Law, and Just Medicine, a prodigious history of global disease that reveals the devastating link between public health and systemic inequality.AIDS, cholera, th...Daugiau...
How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseasesand what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long...Daugiau...
Serija: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Feb-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691255569)
How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2024, Other book format, Leidėjas: OUP India, ISBN-13: 9780190900212)
Authoritarian Absorption unveils the transformation of Chinas pandemic response system from 1978 to 2018 through its battle against HIV/AIDS. Chinese bureaucrats, facing pressure from foreign agenciesespecially those of the US and UKand g...Daugiau...
Fourteen essays respond to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives.Encountering the Plague explores ways in which humanities research can play a meaningful role in key social and political debates and provid...Daugiau...
Fourteen essays respond to the theme of plague from different disciplinary perspectives.Encountering the Plague explores ways in which humanities research can play a meaningful role in key social and political debates and provid...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Aug-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Knopf Books for Young Readers, ISBN-13: 9780593426821)
Presents the incredible true story of Dr. John Snow, the doctor who traced Londons cholera outbreak to a single water pump and went on to save countless lives through his groundbreaking research. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations. The story...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Aug-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593426814)
Presents the incredible true story of Dr. John Snow, the doctor who traced Londons cholera outbreak to a single water pump and went on to save countless lives through his groundbreaking research. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations. The inc...Daugiau...
Surviving Ancient Droughts, Plagues, and Natural Disasters will capture readers attention with historical tales of human triumph and tribulation in the midst of ancient illness and forces of nature. Written with reluctant readers in mind, considerat...Daugiau...
Surviving Ancient Droughts, Plagues, and Natural Disasters will capture readers attention with historical tales of human triumph and tribulation in the midst of ancient illness and forces of nature. Written with reluctant readers in mind, considerat...Daugiau...
