A history of infectious diseases and the microbial world /

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Author / Creator:	Magner, Lois N., 1943-
Imprint:	Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
Description:	xxiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Healing society--disease, medicine, and history, 1933-5938 Healing society--disease, medicine, and history.
Subject:	Communicable diseases -- History. Microbiology -- History. Medical microbiology -- History. Communicable Diseases -- history. Bioterrorism. Communicable Disease Control -- history. Disease Outbreaks -- history. Microbiology -- history. Virus Diseases -- history. Communicable diseases. Medical microbiology. Microbiology. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8006306

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ISBN:	9780275995041 (alk. paper) 0275995046 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-217) and index.

Table of Contents:

Series Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Welcome to the Microbial World
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Disease and History: An Overview
Chapter 2. Miasma, Contagion, and the Germ Theory of Disease
Chapter 3. Microbiology and the Foundations of Modern Surgery and Therapy
Chapter 4. Viruses and Viral Diseases
Chapter 5. Sanitary Reform, Public Health, and the Battle against Filth and Epidemic Diseases
Chapter 6. The Art and Science of Preventing and Controlling Epidemic Diseases
Chapter 7. Emerging Infectious Diseases
Chapter 8. Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism
Chapter 9. Infectious Agents and New Concepts: From Chronic Diseases to the Microbiome
Bibliography
Index

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