Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 9781578597390

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Название: Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19
ISBN: 9781578597390
Издательство: Visible Ink Press
Классификация:

Заболевания и пагубные зависимости: социальные аспекты

ISBN-10: 1578597390
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Вес: 0.92 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 235 x 191 x 24
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Pandemics can come in waves--like tidal waves. They change societies. They disrupt life. They end lives. As far back as 3000 B.C.E. (the Bronze Age), plagues have stricken mankind. COVID-19 is just the latest example, but history shows that life continues. It shows that knowledge and social cooperation can save lives.

Viruses are neither alive nor dead and are the closest thing we have to zombies. Their only known function is to replicate themselves, which can have devastating consequences on their hosts. Most, but not all, bacteria are good for us. Some are truly horrific, including those that caused the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic plagues. And viruses and bacteria are always morphing, evolving, and changing, making them hard to treat. Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 is an enlightening, and sometimes frightening, recounting of the destruction wrought by disease, but it also looks at what man has done and can do to overcome even the deadliest and bleakest of contagions.

More than two years in the making, author Heather E. Quinlan was deep into her research and writing when COVID hit. She quickly saw the similarities to plagues from the past. Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19 not only covers the history, causes, medical treatments, human responses, and aftermath of the worlds biggest pandemics, but it also draws parallels to the present. It chronicles the diseases that have inflicted man throughout the millennia, including ...

The differences (and similarities) between COVID-19 and other coronaviruses

The bubonic plague/black plague, which wiped out 30% to 60% of Europes population

The devastation to the indigenous population during the European colonization of the Americas

The 1918 Spanish Flu, which did not come from Spain

How disease inspired The Canterbury Tales, Wuthering Heights, the pop art of Keith Haring, and other art and literature

AIDS patient zero

How climate change will affect future pandemics

The aftermath of various pandemics

Several modern diseases making a comeback

... and much, much more.

Along with investigating some of historys most notorious pandemics and diseases, Plagues, Pandemics, and Viruses takes a look at human resilience and what weve learned from the past. It looks at how science, the medical community, and governments have conquered or mitigated most epidemics even before they can turn into pandemics. It reviews the science of pandemics, preventative measures, and medical interventions and it includes an exclusive interview with Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as well as other experts in the medical community. Richly illustrated, it also has a helpful bibliography and extensive index. This invaluable resource is designed to help you understand, and protect you from, plagues, pandemics, epidemics, viruses, and disease

Plagues, Pandemics and Viruses: From the Plague of Athens to Covid 19,