Defining documents in world history: plagues, pandemics, and public health, Salem Press
Автор: Giles-Vernick Tamara, Craddock Susan Название: Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics ISBN: 1138867012 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138867017 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Major influenza pandemics pose a constant threat. As evidenced by recent H5N1 avian flu and novel H1N1, influenza outbreaks can come in close succession, yet differ in their transmission and impact. With accelerated levels of commercial and population mobility, new forms of flu virus can also spread across the globe with unprecedented speed. Responding quickly and adequately to each outbreak becomes imperative on the part of governments and global public health organizations, but the difficulties of doing so are legion.
One tool for pandemic planning is analysis of responses to past pandemics that provide insight into productive ways forward. This book investigates past influenza pandemics in light of today's, so as to afford critical insights into possible transmission patterns, experiences, mistakes, and interventions. It explores several pandemics over the past century, from the infamous 1918 Spanish Influenza, the avian flu epidemic of 2003, and the novel H1N1 pandemic of 2009, to lesser-known outbreaks such as the 1889-90 influenza pandemic and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968. Contributors to the volume examine cases from a wide range of disciplines, including history, sociology, epidemiology, virology, geography, and public health, identifying patterns that cut across pandemics in order to guide contemporary responses to infectious outbreaks.
Описание: Influenza was the great killer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the so-called 'Russian flu' killed around 1 million people across Europe in 1889-93 - including the second-in-line to the British throne, the Duke of Clarence. The Spanish flu of 1918, meanwhile, would kill 50 million people - nearly 3% of the world's population. Here, Mark Honigsbaum outlines the history of influenza in the period, and describes how the fear of disease permeated Victorian culture. These fears were amplified by the invention of the telegraph and the ability of the new mass-market press to whip up public hysteria. The flu was therefore a barometer of wider fin de siecle social and cultural anxieties - playing on fears engendered by economic decline, technology, urbanisation and degeneration. A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics is a vital new contribution towards our understanding of European history and the history of the media.
Автор: Elbe, Stefan (director, Centre For Global Health Policy & Professor Of International Relations, University Of Sussex) Название: Pandemics, pills, and politics ISBN: 1421425580 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421425580 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The fascinating story of Tamiflu's development and stockpiling against global health threats.orld's most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu.
A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd, but many states around the world believe precisely that. Confronted with pandemics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases, governments are transforming their security policies to include the proactive development, acquisition, stockpiling, and mass distribution of new pharmaceutical defenses. What happens--politically, economically, and socially--when governments try to protect their populations with pharmaceuticals? How do competing interests among states, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and scientists play out in the quest to develop new medical countermeasures? And do citizens around the world ultimately stand to gain or lose from this pharmaceuticalization of security policy?
Stefan Elbe explores these complex questions in Pandemics, Pills, and Politics, the first in-depth study of the world's most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu. Taken by millions of people around the planet in the fight against pandemic flu, Tamiflu has provoked suspicions about undue commercial influence in government decision-making about stockpiles. It even found itself at the center of a prolonged political battle over who should have access to the data about the safety and effectiveness of medicines.
Pandemics, Pills, and Politics shows that the story of Tamiflu harbors deeper lessons about the vexing political, economic, legal, social, and regulatory tensions that emerge as twenty-first-century security policy takes a pharmaceutical turn. At the heart of this issue, Elbe argues, lies something deeper: the rise of a new molecular vision of life that is reshaping the world we live in.
Автор: Oldstone Michael B. a. Название: Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present and Future ISBN: 0195327314 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195327311 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2295.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses. Oldstone begins with smallpox, polio, and measles. Nearly 300 million people were killed by smallpox in this century alone and the author presents a vivid account of the long campaign to eradicate this lethal killer. Oldstone then describes the fascinating viruses that have captured headlines in more recent years: Ebola, Hantavirus, mad cow disease (a frightening illness made worse by government mishandling and secrecy), and, of course, AIDS. And he tells us of the many scientists watching and waiting even now for the next great plague, monitoring influenza strains to see whether the deadly variant from 1918--a viral strain that killed over 20 million people in 1918-1919--will make a comeback. For this revised edition, Oldstone includes discussions of new viruses like SARS, bird flu, virally caused cancers, chronic wasting disease, and West Nile, and fully updates the original text with new findings on particular viruses. Viruses, Plagues, and History paints a sweeping portrait of humanity's long-standing conflict with our unseen viral enemies. Oldstone's book is a vivid history of a fascinating field, and a highly reliable dispatch from an eminent researcher on the front line of this ongoing campaign.
Автор: McMillen Christian W. Название: Pandemics: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0199340072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199340071 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV.
Are you interested in comparing the past's pandemics and those of today? What will be the impact of the latest epidemic on the global economy? Do you want to know how the deadliest pandemic of the 20th century started and ended? If you are interested in learning about the worst pandemics that have accompanied human history, this is the book for YOU!
In this book, you will discover "the cyclic struggle between man and nature. How every pandemic has changed the course of history: accompanying or causing wars, migrations, collapses of empires, economic systems, religious powers, ideological persecution."
This Compilation Book includes:
#BOOK 1 - PANDEMIC HISTORY: How Pandemics Have Changed History
#BOOK 2 - PANDEMIC HISTORY: From the Plague to the Last Epidemic
#BOOK 3 - 1918 SPANISH FLU: The Terrible Story of The Great Influenza, the 20th Century's Deadliest Pandemic
In particular, you will learn about:
- The Oldest Plagues in History: Athenian Plague, Anthonian Plague, Cypriot Plague, The Plague of Justinian, The Black Plague, and Smallpox. In these chapters, you will travel to remote places and times where humankind has adapted and survived.
- Different Plagues of History, like the Russian Plague, the Yellow Fever, the Great Plague of Vienna, the Polio, and many others
- And again, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Cholera, Hong Kong Flu, HIV, SARS, and Ebola
- How vaccines have changed the world, in particular, how fundamental social immunization has been, and what impact it has had on public health
- Side effects on Global Economy
- In the third book, an in-depth analysis of the Great Influenza of 1918, with its origins and causes and what we can learn from this historical fact
Even if a long time has passed, these events have a significant correlation with the present, and for this reason, it is essential to know them. This book is a work of epidemiological history like no other, with important lessons for our own time because it delves into the past of the world's deadliest diseases.
Are you ready to dive into this fascinating reading?
Описание: "Portrays epidemiologists as disease detectives who tirelessly hunt for clues and excel at deductive reasoning. Even Sherlock Holmes would be proud of this astute group of professionals."--Booklist Despite advances in health care, infectious microbes continue to be a formidable adversary to scientists and doctors. Vaccines and antibiotics, the mainstays of modern medicine, have not been able to conquer infectious microbes because of their amazing ability to adapt, evolve, and spread to new places. Terrorism aside, one of the greatest dangers from infectious disease we face today is from a massive outbreak of drug-resistant microbes. Deadly Outbreaks recounts the scientific adventures of a special group of intrepid individuals who investigate these outbreaks around the world and figure out how to stop them. Part homicide detective, part physician, these medical investigators must view the problem from every angle, exhausting every possible source of contamination. Any data gathered in the field must be stripped of human sorrows and carefully analyzed into hard statistics. Author Alexandra Levitt, PhD, is an expert on emerging diseases and other public health threats. Here she shares insider accounts she's collected that go behind the alarming headlines we've seen in the media: mysterious food poisonings, unexplained deaths at a children's hospital, a strange neurologic disease afflicting slaughterhouse workers, flocks of birds dropping dead out of the sky, and drug-resistant malaria running rampant in a refugee camp. Meet the resourceful investigators--doctors, veterinarians, and research scientists--and discover the truth behind these cases and more. This edition features a new introduction by the author
Автор: Celene Schwartz Meredith Название: The Ethics of Pandemics ISBN: 1554815444 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781554815449 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2911.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on modern health-care systems and has given rise to complex ethical issues. This collection of readings and case studies offers an overview of some of the most pressing of these issues, such as the allocation of scarce resources, and the curtailing of standard privacy measures.
Автор: Muan John Название: Pandemic History: The Worst Pandemics That Changed History ISBN: 1801180288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781801180283 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3306.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Are you interested in learning about the worst pandemics that have accompanied human history? Do you want to know how the different epidemics have been dealt with in the past?
If so, this is the book you need to read
Within this book, you will be provided with the necessary information to understand how the different pandemics have followed one another in past years. Based on extensive research, this book takes readers through the battles faced by mankind throughout history, focusing mostly on the most famous viruses.
You will find the history of:
- Malaria
- Tuberculosis
- History of Smallpox
- Plague and Black Death (1346-1353)
- Cholera
- Spanish influenza (1918-1920)
- The Spread of the Plague through the Byzantine Empire
- Hong Kong Flu (1968 Influenza Pandemic)
- HIV and AIDS
- Serious Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
- EBOLA
Even if we talk about past events, it is always important to know these historical events, from which we can glean many teachings.
Описание: Geographies of Plague Pandemics attempts to synthesis our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis. The environmental, political, economic, and social impacts of the plague from Ancient Greece to the modern day are examined. Chapters explore the identity of plague DNA, its human mortality, and
Автор: Abeysinghe Название: Pandemics, Science and Policy ISBN: 1137467193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137467195 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation`s (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO`s account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect policy and action on the global level.
Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues--anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio--were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever, German anthrax attacks on the United States during World War I, the tuberculin war of 1931, Japanese biological warfare in the 1940s, and today's bioterror dangers.
Veterinary science in the rural Midwest arose from agriculture, but in urban Philadelphia it came from medicine; similar differences occurred in Canada between Toronto and Montreal. As land-grant colleges were established after the American Civil War, individual states followed divergent pathways in supporting veterinary science. Some employed a trade school curriculum that taught agriculturalists to empirically treat animal diseases and others emphasized a curriculum tied to science. This pattern continued for a century, but today some institutions have moved back to the trade school philosophy. Avoiding lessons of the 1910 Flexner Report on medical education reform, university-associated veterinary schools are being approved that do not have control of their own veterinary hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and research institutes--components that are critical for training students in science. Underlying this change were twin idiosyncrasies of culture--disbelief in science and distrust of government--that spawned scientology, creationism, anti-vaccination movements, and other anti-science scams.
As new infectious plagues continue to arise, Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues details the strategies we learned defeating plagues from 1860 to 1960--and the essential role veterinary science played. To defeat the plagues of today it is essential we avoid the digital cocoon of disbelief in science and cultural stasis now threatening progress.
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